Just stuck into that myself. What I did:   Set up port forwarding in VirtualBox (network settings) from 0.0.0.0:22 guest to 127.0.0.1:2222 host. Edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config on guest and uncommented Port 22. Restarted sshd on guest: sudo service sshd restart Stopped iptables on guest (might be unnecessary):  sudo service iptables stop Connected from host using line: ssh -p 2222 -o "UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" cloudera@127.0.0.1   SCP command will be: scp -P 2222 -o "UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" phone_fb_big.csv cloudera@127.0.0.1:~   ... View more