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Microsoft Azure IAAS Essentials

You're reading from  Microsoft Azure IAAS Essentials

Product type Book
Published in May 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781782174639
Pages 170 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Working with your Linux virtual machine


With the Linux virtual machine running, you might wonder how to connect to your new Linux virtual machine, especially if you are from a Windows background. For those of you familiar with Windows, the answer is not quite the same as the Windows virtual machine we created in the earlier chapter.

Connect using Secure Shell (SSH)

Most Linux users will be used to working with the command line interface (CLI). If working with Linux is new to you, then this section will provide you with some specific information about working with Linux. You will need a SSH client to log in to your virtual machine. This needs to be installed on the computer that you wish to connect to the Linux virtual machine from.

In my case, this is going to be my Windows 7 laptop.

There are several free open source SSH clients that you can download for free. There is a comparative list on Wikipedia. You can view this comparison at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_SSH_clients.

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