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virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

[SOLVED] Guest Arch on Host Win 7 using VirtualBox

Hi,
I am finally back to Arch after more than 3 years
Switching to a M$-based company didn't allow me to continue having arch as my main system even at work.
Now it is needed to use virtual machines and I am opting for Arch to build my dev environment.

I am trying to successfully create a guest arch machine that I can access through ssh (in order to use application without starting graphical environments (using VBoxManage).

The point is that I was able to do everything except make the machine reachable

Summarizing:
- win host machine
- arch machine with NAT connector and port forwarding enabled on 2222 (set through VB network tab in the machine properties)

I checked the host is listening on this port through

 
netstat -a | more
...
TCP    127.0.0.1:2222         myhostname:0              LISTENING 
...

If i try to ssh such machine I get the following error:

 
ssh -p 2222 virus@127.0.0.1
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Software caused connection abort

Can anyone help me understand where is the issue? I know many people already had this, but I was not able to fix it.
The port forwarding issue worked on xubuntu guest without problems...but maybe i am missing something.

Thanks in advance

EDIT: clarified title

Last edited by virusso80 (2017-10-03 08:39:33)

virusso80

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: [SOLVED] Guest Arch on Host Win 7 using VirtualBox

Hi,
I solved...nothing to be done...except "enabling" the sshd service.

Thanks anyway