Windows – Virtualbox SSH from Windows 7 (host) to CentOS (guest)

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My network adapter is set to "Bridged Adapter". My CentOS (guest) IP is 192.168.0.4 and I am able to view Apache web server (port 80) from Windows 7 (host) but I am unable to SSH (port 22). I get "connection refused" from putty.

Here's a screenshot of my iptables in CentOS:

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If you are accessing the Apache HTTP Server welcome page using localhost and not the IP address, then it is possible that dhcpcd is not running. Have you verified that sshd is running?

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Are you sure the IP is for the guest OS. I had the same problem and it turned out that the IP I had been using all along, the 192.168.56.101 was actually the Windows interface IP and the host OS IP was 192.168.56.103.

You can verify by doing ipconfig / ifconfig on both.

NOTE: I had also setup a static IP which it turns out I didn't need at all. In case you try from the start I found this tutorial to be better.

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The issue was that /etc/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 had static IP address set:

BOOTPROTO=static
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The solution was to remove those and set dhcp:

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

Note: user CIA started to point the way here by mentioning the incorrect subnet for the guest.

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