Opening and Forwarding Ports To A VirtualBox-based Guest

Posted by on July 30, 2008

Here are the commands used to open and forward the host’s port 2222 to the guest’s port 22 (SSH Server Port).

Type this into a terminal:


VBoxManage setextradata nameofyourguest "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/HostPort" 2222
VBoxManage setextradata nameofyourguest "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/GuestPort" 22
VBoxManage setextradata nameofyourguest "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/Protocol" TCP

Could also be used to forward PostgreSQL and HTTP:


VBoxManage setextradata nameofyourguest "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/postgresql/HostPort" 5432
VBoxManage setextradata nameofyourguest "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/postgresql/GuestPort" 5432
VBoxManage setextradata nameofyourguest "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/postgresql/Protocol" TCP
VBoxManage setextradata nameofyourguest "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/http/HostPort" 8080
VBoxManage setextradata nameofyourguest "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/http/GuestPort" 80
VBoxManage setextradata nameofyourguest "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/http/Protocol" TCP

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