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Accessing the virtual machine via SSH

We have successfully connected to the Terminal console provided to us by VirtualBox. However, this Terminal connection is really basic: for example, we can't scroll up, we can't paste copied text, and we do not have colored syntax highlighting. Fortunately for us, we have a nice alternative: the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. SSH is used to connect to the running shell on the virtual machine. Normally, this would be done over the network: this is how enterprises maintain their Linux servers. In our setup, we can actually use SSH within our host machine, using the power forwarding we set up earlier.

If you followed the installation guide, port 2222 on the host machine should be redirected to port 22 on the ...