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Connect to a Linux virtual machine

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Connect to a Linux virtual machine

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- [Instructor] In one of the earlier videos I showed you how to create a Linux virtual machine. Now I want to take a look at how to connect to that virtual machine. Now, as you may recall, we chose SSH based authentication for that Linux virtual machine. And what that means is that you're going to have to have an SSH client in order to be able to connect to the virtual machine. Now, there are any number of third party clients that you can use, including some really good free ones such as PuTTY, but there's also an SSH client that's built into Windows. Let's take a look at what that looks like. So what I'm going to do is open up settings. Next I'm going to click on Apps, and then I'm going to click on Optional features. And you can see right here that we have the OpenSSH Client installed. And if for whatever reason that client isn't installed on your system, then all you have to do is go to Add a feature and then install…

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