[Solved] Setting up SSH access from local machine to virtual machine

[vsamoshkin]

Hello, I've got a CentOS 7 running in VirtualBox on my local machine and I'm trying to establish a SSH access via PuTTY (running on the same local machine).

I've opened port 22 in CentOS and tunneled port 22 from VM to port 2222 on localhost via network settings in VirtualBox and was trying to start a PuTTY session by entering 127.0.0.1:2222 as an address, but got no luck doing so. I am getting "Network error: software caused connection abort" in PuTTY. I've run out of ideas and came here to ask for help. Thank you!

[socratis]

Try adding a 2nd network adapter to the CentOS guest. Set it to Host-Only. Then in CentOS make sure that you get an IP, should be 192.168.56.101 if you left everything at their defaults, and CentOS is set to get the IP with DHCP. Then try directly to access the guest in that address, no need for port forwarding or anything like that...

[vsamoshkin]

Thank you, Socratis! It's now working.

[socratis]

Glad you got it going. Marking as [Solved].