colon and quotes show up as diamonds in ubuntu 12.10 server edition via virtualbox 4.2

Question

i typed out the following

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/4372049)" 

I get this in my ubuntu vm

Inside the vm i also cannot scroll up and down like the way I can do so using SSH into a a Rackspace ubuntu server for e.g.

Is there a way to do all this? Or I am better off finding a way to SSH into the ubuntu guest OS?

Answer 1

I am using mac os x as host so I have decided to choose the option of using my terminal to ssh into my virtual box ubuntu.

first select the vm inside virtual box and go to settings > network > portforwarding

then add in the rule with host port as 3022 and guest port as 22 and the name as ssh. Leave everything else as blank.

install ssh server packages in the guest ubuntu os

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

finally open up your terminal and then type the following if you want to login as root

ssh -p 3022 root@127.0.0.1

acknowledgements to comments and answers from:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/10532299/80353

and

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5906441/how-to-ssh-to-a-virtualbox-ubuntu-guest-externally-through-a-windows-host#comment19298721_10532299