To Forward Port 22 for SSH on Linux Hosts

[ajhlinuxuser]

Hello,

This post is to help others avoid the same problem I encountered. (I saw a similar post, but it was from 2010)

I wanted to forward port 22 into my guest VM, so I used the NAT setting, and then added a port forwarding rule for port 22 TCP on the host to port 22 on the guest.

It didn't work, and it was a headache trying to change different settings to hopefully fix it.

Then I remembered that on Linux, ports below 1000 require root privileges! Oops!

Changing to a port higher than 1000, for example 10022 on the host, worked just fine and I was able to connect to my guest VM.

[socratis]

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