SSH in the VM will listen on port 22 by default. You're hitting port 2222 on your host machine. If you're using VirtualBox, you can set up port forwarding in VirtualBox so that port 2222 on your host machine is forwarded to 22 (this is probably the easiest solution, but that isn't done out of the box). The alternative is to configure the VM to use something other than NAT for the virtual network. If you configure it to bridged networking or a similar option, it will get it's own IP address that you can use to connect to port 22 from your host machine. ... View more