Vagrant forwarding ssh from remote server

Question

I set up vagrant to run a vm on a host os. What I would like to do is be able to ssh from other machines directly into the vagrant vm (ie, I shouldn't ssh into the host and then vagrant ssh, etc. into the vagrant vm).

Currently, I can ssh not using vagrant ssh from the host os using ssh [email protected] -p 2222. However, if I run the same command (replacing 127.0.0.1 with the host's ip address), I get "ssh connect to host XXXXX port 2222: Connection refused."

I tried adding my own port forwarding rule to vagrant:

config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 22, host: 2222 

But that doesn't allow ssh connection from either the host machine or any other machine in the network. Additionally, I spent a while with config.ssh in the vagrant docs. I think that most of those parameters though specify what port the vagrant vm is running ssh on.

I really don't think this should be that difficult. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong, or what I should do differently to ssh into a vagrant vm from a remote server?

Answer 1

If you don't want to change network to public you can override default port forwarding for ssh by this:

config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 22, host: 2222, host_ip: "0.0.0.0", id: "ssh", auto_correct: true 

This will forward guest 22 port to 2222 on your host machine and will be available from any ip, so you can access it outside your local machine.