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cjones
Asked: 2020-12-08 19:53:34 +0800 CST

Accessing web app running in a VM from host using SSH tunnel

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Perhaps there is a better way of doing this, but I'm trying to access the web app running in the VM (VMware Player 16) from the host's Chrome browser.

  • The host is Windows 10 and the VM is Ubuntu.
  • I have a web app running in the Ubuntu VM at 192.168.39.113:80 (minikube VM inside of kvm2).
  • The VM is using a bridged connection and has an IP of 10.0.0.205.
  • I installed SSH on the Ubuntu VM with sudo apt install openssh-server.
  • I can SSH into the VM from the host now.
  • I'm trying to create a tunnel with ssh -L 8080:192.168.39.113:80 [email protected], but I'm still unable to to connect to the web app from the host's browser when I go to 10.0.0.205:8080.
  • I did enable AllowTcpForwarding yes followed by sudo service sshd restart, which still I'm not able to connect to the web app from the hosts browser when I go to 10.0.0.205:8080.

Suggestions for how to resolve this?

vmware ssh windows-10 20.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You left off the local IP address in your command, which implies either use "127.0.0.1:8080" or "localhost:8080" in your local browser... or, alternatively, add the local IP that you want to use in the SSH command.

    I tested with zim and started its web browser in one of my Virtualbox VMs..

    If I wanted to use any other "local host" ip like 127.10.10.1 in my browswer, I had to specifically designate it: ssh -L 127.10.10.1:5151:192.168.100.100:6968 [email protected]

    This worked using either the remote ssh server or the local ssh server ([email protected]) and I did not have to change sshd_config as AllowTcpForwarding is set to yes by default.

    The only real blocker was attempting to use a specific IP address in the browser without designating one in the ssh -L command.

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