We will mention here all the commands that we executed so that our OS in the VM is fully prepared.
First of all, if required, you can use the loadkeys command to set the keyboard language locale in your VM.
Next, in your VirtualBox, you can expose the ports (port forwarding) from inside the VM to the host environment so that they become accessible. For example, I exposed port 22 of CentOS VM outside, and mapped it to the host OS on port 3302 locally.
With this, I am now using PuTTY to SSH into my CentOS VM, as I type better on PuTTY over Windows.
Note that I am also using WinSCP for file transfers from the Windows host to the VM over SSH. WinSCP uses the same connection settings as PuTTY for secure file transfer.
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