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  • 1.  How to scroll-up and scroll-down in VMware Workstation console

    Posted Sep 12, 2023 07:20 PM
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    Hi,

    I have an issue that I can not scroll-up in VMware Workstation in Linux VM, I would like to scroll-up to see the previous adapters in the VM console ?

    I have tried page-up, up arrow, shift + page up, page up, alt + page up...etc.

    Note: I am using windows 11 machine

    I have tried to search for it , but no result !

    I appreciate any help for that

    BR



  • 2.  RE: How to scroll-up and scroll-down in VMware Workstation console

    Posted Sep 12, 2023 08:04 PM
    What would you do if running Linux on a physical system?


  • 3.  RE: How to scroll-up and scroll-down in VMware Workstation console

    Posted Sep 12, 2023 09:27 PM

    Following up on 's comment - I assume that the screen shot you've posted is a console of a virtual machine (perhaps a Linux server) that's not running a graphical environment.

    if that's what you're doing. -TL;DR you can't scroll that display like you want to. There are alternatives that will allow you to do what I think you want to do. 

    The console display for a virtual machine behaves like a display connected to a physical machine. You can't scroll that either when running a non-graphical terminal session. 

    If you want scrolling, either ssh into the VM from Windows or run a graphical environment with a terminal app that does support scrolling.

    Or do it the "old fashioned UNIX way". Direct the output of the command to a file and use a pager such as "more" or "less".

    ifconfig -a > output.txt
    more output.txt

    Or even pipe the command you're running one of those pagers.

    ifconfig -a | more