Can't SSH into a Vagrant Virtual Machine

Question

Local Vagrant machine installed at ip address 10.0.0.23 and hostname lamp-vm. Using vagrant ssh I can connect just fine and do everything I need.

This creates an ERROR - ssh vagrant@lamp-vm -v -v and I get

debug1: connect to address 10.0.0.23 port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host lamp-vm port 22: Connection timed out

My etc/hosts file contains 10.0.0.23 lamp-vm.

My .ssh/config file looks like
Host lamp-vm
User vagrant
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/vagrant

I have tried the ssh command with and without the -i /path/to/.sh/identity_file as well.

How do I connect to my Vagrant Virtual Machine using SSH?

Answer 1

This behavior is by design.

Vagrant uses VirtualBox NAT mode which means using port forwarding.

You can't SSH directly to your VM using NAT mode.

Using 'vagrant ssh' means vagrant will do the port forwarding for you so you don't have to worry about it. I think it will connect to localhost on port 2222 by default but it will try to also sort out any port number collisions.

If you need to SSH directly to your VM, switch the VM into host-only or bridged networking mode.

Answer 2

I would have added this as a comment, but I currently do not have enough rep to do so. I've written a how-to for setting your VM to bridged mode here:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/116861/setting-up-a-network-between-a-host-and-guest-virtual-machine/116909#116909

I hope you find this useful!

Answer 3

Can you ping the VM Christopher? It defiantly sounds like a small networking issue. Were you able to set it for bridge networking mode?

Answer 4

Destroyed the virtual machine
Reloaded the virtual machine
Everything worked

Not sure why but obviously something didn't load properly on the first provisioning.