After understanding the importance of a well understanding of ssh. It’s time to make our first practice connecting from our windows to a Ubuntu installed in a virtual machine in Virtual Box.

1. Download and install Virtual Box – Link to Virtual box
2. Download a version of UBUNTU – Link to Ubuntu
3. Create New Virtual Machine
   1. On Network Label change from NAT to Bridged Adapter

4. Install SSH server:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

5. Find out your Ip address in your Linux console. 

ip a

You have to use the direction in the second red box.

6. Connect via ssh.

Useful Documentation:

• Trying to SSH to local VM Ubuntu with Putty
• Accessing a virtual machine via SSH connection