Setup VirtualBox port forwarding

The following are the how-to information for setting up the virtualbox port forwarding:

Example:

• Host: Windows/MacOSX
• Guess: Linux
• Service name (any name without space): guestssh
• Guess Port: 22
• Host Port: 2222
• Note: If network interface in VBox is set to Intel, use e1000 rather than pcnet

@Host, run in command line/Terminal

1. VBoxManage setextradata {Virtual Machine Name} "VBoxInternal/Devices/{pcnet | e1000}/0/LUN#0/Config/{Service Name}/HostPort" 2222
2. VBoxManage setextradata {Virtual Machine Name} "VBoxInternal/Devices/{pcnet | e1000}/0/LUN#0/Config/{Service Name}/GuestPort" 22
3. VBoxManage setextradata {Virtual Machine Name} "VBoxInternal/Devices/{pcnet | e1000}/0/LUN#0/Config/{Service Name}/Protocol" TCP

- Check if it creates localhost listening port:

• (@MacOX):
• netstat -nlap tcp

- To connect to guess SSH, type:

• ssh -p 2222 localhost