VirtualBox: SSH to ubuntu guest from windows host

Make sure you have ssh server installed on ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install open-sshserver

Go to VM properties => Network; you should see an adapter attached to NAT. Go to advanced properties and click port forwarding. Create a new port forwarding rule with the below details.

Name: SSH
Protocol: TCP
Host Port: 3022
Guest Port: 22

Or, you can run this command to configure:

VBoxManage modifyvm myubuntuVM --natpf1 "ssh,tcp,,3022,,22"

Use your favorite SSH client (I use cygwin on my win 8 machine) and use the following command to connect:

ssh -p 3022 cherry@127.0.0.1