SSH to Vagrant box in Windows

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I m using Vagrant to start a VirtualBox VM in windows  In other platforms  I can just    vagrant ssh   to connect to the VM   How do i connect to this Vagrant box in windows   The way suggested in Vagrant documentation to use PuTTy also did not work   http   docs-v1 vagrantup com v1 docs getting-started ssh html

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you can using emulator terminal cmder for windows.

Follow below the steps for instalation:

Access cmder.net;
Click in Download Full;
Unzip
(optional) Place your own executable files into the bin folder to be injected into your PATH.
Run Cmder (Cmder.exe)

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Terminal cmder on Windows

Now execute command required for settings VM vagrant, for connect only execute the command vagrant ssh; Watch cmder offers ssh client embedded.

I hope this helps.

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Now I have a much better solution that enables painless Vagrant upgrade  It is based on patched file   The first line of a vagrantfile should be   load  vagrantfile ssh  if Vagrant  Util  Platform windows    And the patched vagrantfile ssh file  originaly named ssh rb  should exist in the same directory as vagrantfile  This is both elegant and functional   Download the patched vagrantfile ssh

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A good alternative to PuTTY is the Mintty terminal emulator  It has more configurable options than PuTTY

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Windows 7   not tested on other versions      Right Click on  My Computer  and click properties Click Advanced System Settings Click Environment Variables In second box under  System Variables  scroll down and click on variable  Path  and click EDIT Make sure the path is included in the Variable Value by appending  a semicolon if it s not there and  C  Program Files  x86  Git bin    or whatever is the path to your ssh exe   OK   OK   OK and RESTART WINDOWS You ll have to run vagrant up but after that vagrant ssh should work permanently   More Info which might help with other versions     http   www computerhope com issues ch000549 htm

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I think a better answer to this question would be the following   https   eamann com tech linux-flavored-windows   Eric wrote a nice article on how to turn your windows computer into a Linux environment  Even with hacks to get Vim working natively in cmd    If you run through this guide  which basically gets you to install git cli  and with some hacks  you can bring up a command prompt and type vagrant ssh while in the folder of your vagrant box and it will properly do the right things  no need to configure ssh keys etc  All that comes with ssh and the git cli  bin    The power of this is that you can then actually run powershell and still get all the  nix goodness  This really simplifies your environment and helps with running Vagrant and other things    TL DR Download Git cli and add git bin to PATH  Hack vim bat in  bin to work for windows  Use ssh natively in cmd

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You must patch some Vagrant code by modifying only one file  ssh rb   All the info is here  https   gist github com 2843680  vagrant ssh will now work also in Windows  just like in Linux     EDIT  In newer Versions this became unnecessary  You still have to add the path to your ssh exe to your PATH Variable    Search for ssh exe on your computer  copy the Path  i e  C  Program Files  x86  Git bin   open System Preferences  find the Environment variable Settings  click on the Path Variable  add the path  separating the existing paths using

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There is an OpenSSH package for Windows which is basically a stripped down Cygwin  It has an msi-Installer and  after setting your path accordingly  works with  vsagrant ssh    http   sourceforge net projects opensshwindows  source directory

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I was doing as suggested above but changing the environment variable on the command line only with PATH  PATH   C  Program files git usr bin   This did not work  But when I amended the Environment variable through Windows Settings and then started a new command prompt it worked first time

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Now you could also use the following plugin to connect using putty   https   github com nickryand vagrant-multi-putty  Just execute   vagrant plugin install vagrant-multi-putty  and make sure putty exe and puttygen exe are in your PATH   Then you ll be able to use   vagrant putty   The above mentioned executables are available from    http   www chiark greenend org uk  sgtatham putty download html

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I use PuTTY to connect to my Vagrant boxes on Windows7   Make sure you   convert the  USERPROFILE   vagrant d insecure private key to  ppk using PuTTYGen use the  ppk key in your PuTTY session - configured in Connection   SSH   Auth   Private key file use host 127 0 0 1 use port 2222 instead of 22 you can set the default username  vagrant  under Connection   SSH   Auth   Private key for authentication

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I also met the same problem before    In the homestead folder  use bash init sh  If you don t have  ssh folder in D  Users your username   you need to get a pair of ssh keys  ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  you homestead   Edit Homestead yaml homestead    authoriza     ssh id rsa pub  keys              -    ssh id rsa    5   folders      - map   share directory path in the host computer         to   home vagrant Code  sites      - map  homestead app       to   home vagrant Code    You need to use git bash desktop app  Open git bash desktop app  vagrant up vagrant ssh

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note too  when the login as  prompt appears  enter  vagrant  as the user name  without quotes       Snorkpete Jun 28  12 at 14 14           Or you can go to Category- Connection- Rlogin and set the  Auto-login username  field to  Vagrant    Save the session

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I use vagrant ssh command with git ssh on windows 7  8 1 and Windows 10   To install only download msysgit from msysgit project page   And to run ssh exe only include the bin folter to windows environment variables or install git from Git Download page and copy the msysgit bin folter  to C  Program Files Git bin

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Add the following lines to your Vagrantfile   Vagrant configure 2  do  config              config ssh private key path    vagrant rsa    config vm provision  shell   path   openssh ps1    config vm provision  file   source     vagrant rsa pub   destination      ssh authorized keys  end   where vagrant rsa and vagrant rsa pub is the private and public keys located in current vagrant project folder  and generated e g  by ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  your email here   and openssh ps1 is    is 64bit    IntPtr   size -eq 8    setup openssh  ssh download url    http   www mls-software com files setupssh-7 1p1-1 exe   if    Test-Path  C  Program Files OpenSSH bin ssh exe          Write-Output  Downloading  ssh download url       New-Object System Net WebClient  DownloadFile  ssh download url   C  Windows Temp openssh exe        Start-Process  C  Windows Temp openssh exe    S  privsep 1  password D rj33l1ng  -NoNewWindow -Wait    Stop-Service  OpenSSHd  -Force    ensure vagrant can log in Write-Output  Setting vagrant user file permissions  New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path  C  Users vagrant  ssh  C  Windows System32 icacls exe  C  Users vagrant   grant  vagrant  OI  CI F  C  Windows System32 icacls exe  C  Program Files OpenSSH bin   grant  vagrant  OI RX  C  Windows System32 icacls exe  C  Program Files OpenSSH usr sbin   grant  vagrant  OI RX   Write-Output  Setting SSH home directories       Get-Content  C  Program Files OpenSSH etc passwd         Foreach-Object      -replace   home   w       cygdrive c Users  1          Set-Content  C  Program Files OpenSSH etc passwd     Set shell to  bin sh to return exit status  passwd file   Get-Content  C  Program Files OpenSSH etc passwd   passwd file    passwd file -replace   bin bash     bin sh  Set-Content  C  Program Files OpenSSH etc passwd   passwd file    fix opensshd to not be strict Write-Output  Setting OpenSSH to be non-strict   sshd config   Get-Content  C  Program Files OpenSSH etc sshd config   sshd config    sshd config -replace  StrictModes yes    StrictModes no   sshd config    sshd config -replace   PubkeyAuthentication yes    PubkeyAuthentication yes   sshd config    sshd config -replace   PermitUserEnvironment no    PermitUserEnvironment yes    disable the use of DNS to speed up the time it takes to establish a connection  sshd config    sshd config -replace   UseDNS yes    UseDNS no    disable the login banner  sshd config    sshd config -replace  Banner  etc banner txt     Banner  etc banner txt    next time OpenSSH starts have it listen on th eproper port Set-Content  C  Program Files OpenSSH etc sshd config   sshd config  Write-Output  Removing ed25519 key as Vagrant net-ssh 2 9 1 does not support it  Remove-Item -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue  C  Program Files OpenSSH etc ssh host ed25519 key  Remove-Item -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue  C  Program Files OpenSSH etc ssh host ed25519 key pub     use c  Windows Temp as  tmp location Write-Output  Setting temp directory location  Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue  C  Program Files OpenSSH tmp  C  Program  Files OpenSSH bin junction exe  accepteula  C  Program Files OpenSSH tmp   C  Windows Temp  C  Windows System32 icacls exe  C  Windows Temp   grant  vagrant  OI  CI F     add 64 bit environment variables missing from SSH Write-Output  Setting SSH environment   sshenv    TEMP C  Windows Temp  if   is 64bit         env vars    ProgramFiles x86  C  Program Files  x86               ProgramW6432 C  Program Files              CommonProgramFiles x86  C  Program Files  x86  Common Files              CommonProgramW6432 C  Program Files Common Files       sshenv    sshenv     r n      env vars -join   r n     Set-Content C  Users vagrant  ssh environment  sshenv    record the path for provisioners  without the newline  Write-Output  Recording PATH for provisioners  Set-Content C  Windows Temp PATH   byte    char     env PATH  -Encoding Byte    configure firewall Write-Output  Configuring firewall  netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name  SSHD  dir in action allow service OpenSSHd enable yes netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name  SSHD  dir in action allow program  C  Program Files OpenSSH usr sbin sshd exe  enable yes netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name  ssh  dir in action allow protocol TCP localport 22  Start-Service  OpenSSHd    which is simplified version of joefitzgerald packer-windows openssh setup script   Now you can vagrant ssh into the Windows box   For those who use vagrant-libvirt you possibly want to forward some ports like RDP from host to guest  vagrant-libvirt uses ssh for port forwarding so you need to setup ssh on Windows like in above instructions and then you will be able to forward ports like   config vm network  forwarded port  host  3389  guest  3389  id   rdp   gateway ports  true  host ip

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Download Putty  http   www chiark greenend org uk  sgtatham putty   Using putty exe   Putty GUI   HostName  127 0 0 1 Port  2222   When you connect Terminal Screen    User  vagrant Passwd  vagrant   Before you try to connect  verify your VM using cmd exe    vagrant status   If it is down use   vagrant up

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Install Git Bash  Comes with OpenSSH  as well as grep  find  perl  sed  etc     If you have Vagrant installed  open appwiz cpl  AKA Add Remove Programs  and Repair the Vagrant installation  This will make vagrant add itself to your git-bash path  Open Git Bash  Via the start menu  cd   vagrant mybox to your vagrant box es folder and vagrant ssh

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Another solution here but only for the virtual box of windows 10 to test explorer  ssh user  IEUser ssh pass Passw0rd

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The accepted answer is really helpful however it may happen that instead of the following key    USERPROFILE   vagrant d insecure private key   a different key has to be converted to the Putty s format    vagrant machine root   vagrant machines default virtualbox private key   Where  vagrant machine root  is a folder with the Vagrantfile of the machine we want to connect to using Putty   As  ibizaman mentioned use vagrant ssh-config to check what key is used by vagrant     vagrant ssh-config Host default   HostName 127 0 0 1   User vagrant   Port 2222   UserKnownHostsFile  dev null   StrictHostKeyChecking no   PasswordAuthentication no   IdentityFile c  dev test  vagrant machines default virtualbox private key  lt -- HERE IS THE KEY YOU NEED TO CONVERT TO THE PUTTY FORMAT   IdentitiesOnly yes   LogLevel FATAL

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very simple  once you install Vagrant manager and virtual box  try installing cygwin on windows but while installing cygwin  make sure to select the SSH package  VIM package which will enable your system to login to your VM from cygwin after spinning up your machine through vagrant

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Another option using git binaries    Install git  http   git-scm com download win Start Menu   cmd  shift enter to go as Administrator  set PATH  PATH  C  Program Files Git usr bin vagrant ssh   Hope this helps     Just a bonus after months using that on Windows  use Console instead of the Win terminal  so you can always open a new terminal tab with PATH set  configure it on options

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The vagrant installation folder contains an ssh exe that behaves like ssh 1  on linux  takes the same flags arguments    To see all of the arguments used  you can run vagrant ssh-config or vagrant ssh --debug for a more verbose output   from Powershell   C   HashiCorp  Vagrant  embedded  usr  bin ssh EXE ubuntu 127 0 0 1 -p 2222 -o LogLevel FATAL -o DSAAuthentication yes -o Strict HostKeyChecking no -i  C  Users path to project  vagrant machines default virtualbox private key    This is useful is situations where vagrant status says your vm is in poweroff or suspended mode when you re positive it actually is running  to force ssh connection   If you don t want to remember type the above command  juste write it in a vagrant ps1 file so you can execute it from your powershell using     vagrant ssh ps1

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Personally  I just use Cygwin  Which allows you to use many common  nix commands in Windows  SSH being one of them

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Either   In your cmd console type the following   set PATH  PATH  C  Program Files  x86  Git bin    OR   Permanently set the path in your system s environment variables   C  Program Files  x86  Git bin

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