Gary,
I'm not sure you got your answer yet...so here goes :-)
You're running Windows 7 as HOST and RHEL as the GUEST operating system. I'm going to assume that your VirtualBox network configuration for RHEL is NAT'd (instead of bridged). This means that you're going to need to use the following command to do port-forward (port 22) from the HOST to the GUEST. From your windows command prompt enter the following command:
VBoxManage modifyvm "vopa" --natpf1 "guestssh,tcp,,22,,22"
Port 22 is the default port used by ssh or putty. Since Windows 7 doesn't use this port the command will forward all network traffic over this port from the HOST to the GUEST. Now from a command prompt on your windows system you can use the following putty command to logon to your RHEL (GUEST) system from your windows system (HOST).
putty userid@localhost
Where 'userid' is the linux user account on your RHEL system. For example if your userid was the root account you would type the following:
putty root@localhost
You will be prompted for the password.
Hope that helps :-)
--Slick
Thanks for your time to take screenshots. After following your instructions,
ifconfig eth0
does not print aninet addr
justHWaddr
and then the next line isinet6 addr
. – SSH This – 2013-09-10T20:32:52.2131I figured what I was doing wrong, hopefully it will help someone. The "Name" drop down (underneath "Attached to") was a wireless connection. When I switched this to a Gigabit wired connection, your instructions worked perfectly. – SSH This – 2013-09-10T20:52:52.733
THANK YOU @SSHThis - you have helped me infinitely. I feel so stupid. Oh, me. – jdero – 2013-12-14T04:14:42.600