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Easy way to SSH into VirtualBox machine | Any OS

Tharun Shiv on July 12, 2020

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 Virt...

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redcricket • Feb 28 '22 • Edited

% 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

Justman10000 • Apr 25 '22

Yes, it's nasty! You want to use software and forget to install it!

Long Nguyễn Xuân • Aug 14 '22

thanks for comment this.

nandum21 • Aug 15 '22

try:
ssh -p 3022 username@127.0.0.1
can change port to 7777 like that .... as ur wish

balu • Jul 18 '20

Thanks a lot man :)

Tharun Shiv • Jul 18 '20

Glad it helped. :)

igor-marques • Sep 25 '23

had trouble using

$ ssh -p 3022 imarques@127.0.0.1
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:22...
Could not connect to '127.0.0.1' (port 22): Connection failed.

changed to

$ ssh imarques@127.0.0.1:3022
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:3022...
Connection established.
To escape to local shell, press 'Ctrl+Alt+]'.
Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-84-generic x86_64)

many thanks!

Tharun Shiv • Oct 17 '21

Awesome!

Vitaly Natalievich • Nov 21 '21

Thanx a lot!

Thanh Nguyen • Oct 5 '22

awesome bro. it saved me :D

nandum21 • Aug 15 '22

This Works ... Thanks :)

Justman10000 • Apr 25 '22

Spent hours looking for this, thanks to this post it finally works...

Phylloxera • Apr 27 '22

Operation timed out