I'm trying to connect to my virtual machine and I'm continously getting the following error:
ssh: connect to host 192.168.56.101 port 22: Connection refused
My host OS is a fresh installed Ubuntu 18.04 and the virtual machine is an old Ubuntu 14.04 (the virtual machine isn't a fresh install; rather, I've created a new virtual machine and then import the virtual hard disk file .dvi
from my old laptop where ssh
ing worked without issues).
I can ping
to the machine without package loss, and I think everything is correctly configured.
On the virtual machine, I have two adapters, the defaulted NAT, without any port forwarding rule, and the usual vboxnet0
Host-only adapter. Such vboxnet0
host-only adapter has been created by going to File -> Host Network Manager
, and adding a new entry. The DHCP server is disabled, and the IP address/mask is 192.168.56.101/24:
The ifconfig
output from my virtual machine is:
and that's the contents of its /etc/network/interfaces
:
The ifconfig
output from my Host machine is:
enp61s0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:d8:61:06:78:ce txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 16
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 2430 bytes 204819 (204.8 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 2430 bytes 204819 (204.8 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
vboxnet0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.56.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.56.255
inet6 fe80::800:27ff:fe00:0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 225 bytes 35362 (35.3 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlo1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.181.127.144 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 10.181.255.255
inet6 fe80::e7bf:1f7f:8578:e980 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 98:3b:8f:d8:06:17 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 90490 bytes 44130738 (44.1 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 15323 bytes 2985782 (2.9 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
and its etc/network/interfaces
is the default one:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
In the virtual machine, the ssh
server is in start/running
state and ufw
is not blocking port 22:
However, from my host machine:
$ ssh -vvv 192.168.56.101
OpenSSH_7.6p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.3, OpenSSL 1.0.2n 7 Dec 2017
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug2: resolving "192.168.56.101" port 22
debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.56.101 [192.168.56.101] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.56.101 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 192.168.56.101 port 22: Connection refused
NOTE: Adding a port forwarding rule to the NAT adapter, unless I did it wrong, didn't solved the issue; besides, in my old laptop I have no port forwarding rules.
192.168.56.101
IP is thevboxnet0
interface created by virtualbox. I don't think that can be changed.tail -f
bothauth.log
orsyslog
, there are no new messages in any of both log files, so it seems that the client is trying to connect tolocalhost
and, since my host machine has of course no ssh server, the connection is refused.