So to get started… End Result of This GuideĪ local virtual machine running Amazon Linux that has the same network access as the host machine, and can be connected to from the host via ssh. This is functional as of January 1st, 2020 and I have tested the full process using copy and paste from this guide so I’m fairly confident that I didn’t introduce a typo that wastes anyone’s time. What follows is a configuration process that works for me, an attempt to present a more complete process for the whole effort along with config files that are correctly formatted. Blog posts, Reddit etc., they all assume bits of knowledge that I didn’t have, and in some cases had frustrating mistakes in their posted solution code. The online documentation for getting the OS running this way was vague enough to only get me 80% of the way to the goal.I’m not familiar with VirtualBox or any of the other options for playing VMs locally.I needed to run Amazon’s Linux distribution locally in order to work on administrative scripts while off the corporate network and at times not on any network at all. The end goal: ssh’d in to a local VM running Amazon Linux 2
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