On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 5:06 PM Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > [...] > > I never install the VirtualBox guest additions. The downside is that > > sharing data is less comfortable (I use 'scp' each time), and that > > the mouse handling is a bit more annoying. > > The problem is that I can't seem to open connections from my host > machine to the guest machine: my host machine can't find the guests via > any IP address I can come up with.
In Virtual Box, setup the LAN adapter as bridged. It will get an address from your DHCP server, and you will be able to SSH to it. The wrinkle is, if your host is connected via wifi. If your host is wifi connected, then guests cannot use bridging to get a DHCP address. In this case, use an ethernet/usb adapter for the host. Then the bridged adapter will be available. Jeff
