Hey there!
This is Tharun here. Most of us would have struggled to SSH into a VirtualBox Machine. In this article, I introduce to you what Virtual Box is and how you can SSH into it from your local machine.
What is VirtualBox?
The VirtualBox is a software that can be used to run multiple operating systems on your own operating system and effortlessly switch between them, create snapshots, delete them, restore them on the fly.
We all have wondered if we had an easier way to access our VirtualBox Machines. In this tutorial, we will look at how you can SSH into your VirtualBox machine. This will prevent you to have to open your VirtualBox GUI to do everything. (duh!)
Did you know you could do this??
How to SSH into it?
Open VirtualBox
Click on Settings and go to Network
You can either click on the Settings icon, or you can right-click on a Virtual Machine and select the Settings option
Choose an Adapter
Based on which Adapter is free on your virtual machine. Enable the Network Adapter. Select the NAT network.
Select the Port Forwarding
Open the Advanced options and click on Port Forwarding. Leave other settings as default.
Add a new entry
Click on the + icon on the top-right corner to add a new rule.
The rule
Name: ssh
Protocol: TCP
Host Port: 3022
Guest Port: 22
Leave others empty
What we're telling here is, basically forward all connections to the port 3022 on host machine to the port 22 on the guest machine. If you didn't know, SSH uses port 2
Done! Now let's connect
Open your terminal and type
~$ ssh -p 3022 <username>@127.0.0.1
Here,
~$ ssh -p 3022 ubuntu-1@127.0.0.1
Enter the Password of your that you are logging into and we're done
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Next article on how you can run a VirtualBox without running it's GUI. So combining SSH access and no-GUI, VirtualBox made convenient.
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Top comments (13)
% ssh -p 3022 127.0.0.1
kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
Connection closed by 127.0.0.1 port 3022
trying to ssh to ubuntu vm
Ah. I didn't install openssh-server on the ubuntu vm like so ...
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
thanks for comment this.
Yes, it's nasty! You want to use software and forget to install it!
try:
ssh -p 3022 username@127.0.0.1
can change port to 7777 like that .... as ur wish
Thanks a lot man :)
Glad it helped. :)
had trouble using
changed to
many thanks!
Thanx a lot!
Awesome!
Spent hours looking for this, thanks to this post it finally works...
This Works ... Thanks :)
awesome bro. it saved me :D
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