To connect to a different node, change the port number from 2201 to 22 xx, where xx is the node number.Īssuming PuTTY is installed, start it and set the following in the PuTTY Configuration window if wanting to connect to node1: To connect to node1, open a Terminal and run the following command: To connect from host to virtual machine, the destination IP address is 127.0.0.1 (or localhost). The scheme used in virtnet is that the external port is 22 followed by the node number. Luckily when using virtnet Linux nodes, both conditions are met.Įach node in virtnet is configured to run a SSH server (on the standard port 22) and VirtualBox is configured to port forward from another port to 22. However for SSH to work, the virtual machine must be running a SSH server and VirtualBox must be configured to accept connections (i.e. On Windows hosts, PuTTY is a good choice. From a terminal on the host, ssh can be used to connect to the virtual machine. On Linux (or OSX) hosts, a SSH client is built-in.

To overcome this, I commonly use an external application to SSH into the Linux machine, allowing me to take advantage of the GUI/Terminal capabilities of that external application. Also you cannot change the terminal size and the fonts (when zoomed) are poor quality. For example, there is no copy-and-paste, and no scrolling through past terminal output. When you run a Linux command-line only virtual machine in VirtualBox, the VirtualBox window can be difficult for prolonged use.

Connect to VirtualBox Linux Node using PuTTY

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