Accessing VirtualBox Guests from Host using SSH, WinSCP and Tunnelling Accessing VirtualBox Guests from Host using SSH, WinSCP and Tunnelling Accessing Virtual Machine using SSH via a Terminal Open up a terminal in your host system. This is usually the application called Terminal in Linux or OSX; start PuTTY if in Windows. Now connect using the SSH client to localhost and port 2201 (or whichever you choose in Port Forwarding). On the command line that is performed using the -p option. The -l option may also be used to specific the username for the guest login: sgordon@lime:~$ ssh -p 2201 -l network localhost network@localhost's password: Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-virtual i686) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ System information as of Fri Jun 21 14:23:35 ICT 2013 System load: 0.16 Processes: 76 Usage of /: 14.4% of 7.47GB Users logged in: 1 Memory usage: 33% IP ad...