SSH between Mac OS X 10.6 host and Virtual Box guest?

[amittai]

Has anybody been able to communicate by SSH between a Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) host and a guest running on VirtualBox? My guest is Ubuntu Server 10.10 (64-bit). I have done the following, but to no avail:

1. Installed OpenSSH Server on my Ubuntu Server 10.10 guest.
2. Shut the guest down, and used VirtualBox Settings to enable a second virtual network adapter, named (by default) vboxnet0, and which I set as a host-only adapter.
3. Ran ifconfig vboxnet0 in my host terminal:

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   $ ifconfig vboxnet0
   vboxnet0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
   	ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 
   	inet 192.168.56.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.56.255

4. Booted Ubuntu Server up again, and edited the /etc/network/interfaces file (sudo emacs /etc/network/interfaces) to append the following lines:

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   auto eth1
   iface eth1 inet static
   address 192.168.56.10
   netmask 255.255.255.0

5. Saved and closed the interfaces file.
6. Ran sudo ifup eth1 from the Ubuntu command line.
7. Switched to my host terminal and entered ssh 192.168.56.10.

But my Mac OS X ssh client just hung there without a response until it timed out.
There must be something else I am supposed to do to make this work—but what could it be? Does anybody know? Thank you!

[Perryg]

Is the guest set up to receive ssh and configured properly?

[amittai]

I figured it out: I just had to go back to my VM's Settings->System and check "Enable I/O APIC." Now I can SSH from my host to the guest just fine.