Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

[Bill Davidsen]

Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:25:29AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 07/24/13 22:38, Patrick Lists wrote:
>>> With the Firewalld service stopped I can ping and ssh fine into the VM from my laptop.
>>
>> FWIW, it has been a long time but I always had FW trouble when dealing with a NAT configuration.
>>
>> I don't know virt-manager, but if possible I'd switch to a bridged network
>> configuration so the VM has a 10.X.X.X IP.
>
> I'd only do that if you absolutely need to access the VM from the
> outside, or at least outside of the host machine.
>
Your caution is correct, but in many cases sites run web servers, mail, DNS, 
DHCP,and other services on a VM. A bridge is not the only way to do that, but it 
is one approach.


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