How to access your Virtual Machine console

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• This article needs lots more info, but here's a quick intro.

To connect to your VM remotely you will use the remote console. At first, this seems like it is your SSH console connection, but it's not. You can set that up separately in your distribution. The connection is opened with a program like Putty (for Windows users) like so:

hostname.domain.com:7322

If you are connecting from another UNIX/Linux host, simply:

ssh -p 7322 hostname.domain.com

When I first got my unixshell#, this was a source of confusion. That is a direct, remotely controlled shell/console. If you want SSH access, which is a little better because you will have full screen width, you need to set that up in your VM's distribution. So, even though you use Putty, an SSH client to access your host at port 7322, it's not your installed SSH service you are connecting to.

This remote console is real handy because, if your like me, you might be messing around and testing certain things, only to lock yourself out somehow using SSH. Even if sshd (the Secure Shell Daemon) is shut off, and you are unable to connect, you can still login at port 7322 via the console and repair things.

I haven't tested this, but I believe you can even boot your VM into single user mode and do repair with this. Very handy stuff, almost like you have your own dedicated server. (almost :-)