Comments on: Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests

By: Ori Peleg

Ori Peleg — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:42:00 +0000

Thanks, worked like a charm with a OS/X Lion host and Ubuntu 12.04 guest.

By: Pankov

Pankov — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 05:42:18 +0000

Great tutorial only there is a need to “/etc/init.d/networking restart” if you don’t want to restart the guest.

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:24:06 +0000

@kevin: that sounds reasonable – I set it as static just to prevent the case of a DHCP lease expiring and the ip address changing.

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:20:54 +0000

Thanks for the great tip.

I didn’t have to edit my interfaces file at all though. After I added the extra network interface to the guest I booted it up and typed ifconfig and saw that eth1 had an IP of 192.168.56.101 so in my host I tried to ssh into that and it worked!

When I was adding the second network interface in virtual box though at first I had no options for name. To fix this I just opened the virtual box settings from File > Preferences. And in the network tab I just clicked add host-only network.

By: Sriram

Sriram — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:10:54 +0000

Thanks alot, this works very well with an Ubuntu 11.10 host with 2(+) Ubuntu 11.10 guests

By: Niels Bom

Niels Bom — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:32:36 +0000

I encountered a problem with the “Name” dropdown in your screenshot. My dropdown was empty and I got the following notice:

“No host-only network adapter is selected”

Solution: first add a network via File > Preferences > Network > Add (plus sign)

By: Superole

Superole — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:01:29 +0000

Excellent! It works! almost upon first try…
I actually reversed the steps, and that made me have to restart the VM, but then it just worked automagically.

PS: I left the adapter-type in the default setting, because the textual steps didn’t mention it. My default was Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (same as VW posted to have used).

PPS: My host is Win7 and my guest is Ubuntu

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By: vw

vw — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:48:18 +0000

Solved my issue. It was the adaptor type for my host-only adaptor. I had set it to match what was in the howto (PCnet-FAST III). I switch the adaptor type to match my NAT adaptor (Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop). I am now able to access my guest VM from 192.168.56.10

By: vw

vw — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:55:17 +0000

After setting up my host and local guest VM exactly as described in this howto. I am not able to ping my guest VM from my host. The guest VM is able to connect to the internet from eth0. Ultimately I would like to reach port 22 and 80 for ssh and httpd. Below is the output of running a ping from my host: PING 192.168.56.10 (192.168.56.10) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.56.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.56.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.56.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable I have VirtualBox version 4.0.4 OSE below are my machine configurations: Host: Ubuntu 11.04 In ifconfig:

vboxnet0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00  
          inet addr:192.168.56.1  Bcast:192.168.56.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::800:27ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Guest: Debian 6.0.3 In ifconfig:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:a2:1b:a1  
          inet addr:192.168.56.10  Bcast:192.168.56.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fea2:1ba1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:15619 (15.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0xd240

In /etc/network/interfaces:

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
    address 192.168.56.10
    netmask 255.255.255.0