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July 2009

  • How to enable ssh access to a VirtualBox guest

    Posted Thu, 2009/07/23 - 6:07am by alex

    Enable ssh access to a virtualbox guest instance using VBoxManage. The guest is the guest machine name and should be quoted if the name contains spaces.

    $ VBoxManage setextradata 'guest' "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/HostPort" 2222
$ VBoxManage setextradata 'guest' "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/GuestPort" 22
$ VBoxManage setextradata 'guest' "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/Protocol" TCP