Connecting to virtual machines

Prerequisites

• Virtual machines are created, as described in Creating virtual machines.

• To be able to connect via SSH, the virtual machine must have cloud-init and OpenSSH installed.

To connect to a virtual machine via the VNC console

Select a VM, and then click Console on its right pane. The console will open in a separate browser window. In the console, you can send a key combination to a VM, take a screenshot of the console window, and download the console log (refer to Troubleshooting virtual machines).

To connect to a virtual machine via SSH

During the launch an instance, a default user will be created, and this user will have no password set. Instead, your SSH key is copied to the VM and you will be able to login to the machine via SSH using the default username. The default username varies between Operating Systems. Here are the usernames for our official distributions:

Linux

Connect to Linux Instances

Distribution	User Name
Rocky Linux	rocky
Ubuntu Linux	ubuntu
CentOS Linux	centos
Debian Linux	debian
Alma Linux	alma

Windows

Connect to Windows Instances

To access a Windows Instance, use the RDP protocol and an RDP client for your operating system:

• Windows: Remote Desktop

• macOS: Microsoft Remote Desktop

• Linux: FreeRDP

Specify the Pubic or Elastic IP address in the client and provide the default username Administrator and the password specified during the deployment.

Specify the username and VM IP or Elastic IP address in the SSH terminal:

# ssh <username>@<VM_IP_address>

Linux cloud images have the default login, depending on the operating system, for example, centos or ubuntu. To connect to a Windows VM, enter the username that you specified during Cloudbase-Init installation.

If you have deployed a VM without specifying an SSH key, you also need to enter a password to log in to the VM.