Using SSH to Connect to Container

You can use the Secure Shell (ssh) application to remotely connect to your Container and work inside its directory tree using standard Linux command line tools. To connect to the Container by ssh, you should make sure that:

1. You are launching Parallels Infrastructure Manager in Internet Explorer 5.0 or above. SSH connection to the Container is supported by other browsers only if you have a Java Virtual Machine on your computer.
2. The Container is running. If it is not, start it on the Start/Stop Container page.

Note: If your Container is running the Windows Server 2003 operating system, please turn to the Using Remote Desktop Connection to Access Container section to learn to manage Containers by means of the Remote Desktop Connection application.

The SSH Connection window is opened upon clicking on the Terminal Login icon on the Container dashboard. You are presented with the Login and Password fields where you should enter the relevant information (root or any other user name you might have created for this Container and this user's password) to be passed to the ssh server inside the Container.

After you have filled in these two fields, click the Login button. If you are doing this for the first time, your browser may display a window like this asking you to install additional components:

Note: When connecting to your Container via SSH using a browser other than Internet Explorer, this window does not appear. The SSH connection through browsers on the Mozilla engine is provided by the Java technology.

Click Yes in this window and wait for the ssh terminal window to appear, whereupon you get connected to the Container and may start sending commands to it via ssh.

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