George myglc2 Clemmer writes: > I have ssh working to a server image ... > > nemo:~ $ ssh g1@server02.local > Last login: Sun Feb 25 22:11:42 2018 from fe80::1ccf:c589:7e5f:a21f%eth0 > > ... but not to a similar xFCE desktop VM image ... > > nemo:~ $ ssh g1@desktop01.local -vvv > OpenSSH_7.6p1, LibreSSL 2.6.2 > debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/glc/.ssh/config > debug1: /Users/glc/.ssh/config line 48: Applying options for * > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config > debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for * > debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0 > debug1: Connecting to desktop01.local port 22. > ssh: connect to host desktop01.local port 22: Connection refused Could it be that perhaps ssh daemon failed to start? Several people have observed that failure mode, but nobody has been able to reproduce it consistently in a VM yet, which has made troubleshooting difficult: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-02/msg00022.html Check the logs in /var/log/shepherd.log. If you're suffering from this problem, Shepherd will say that it failed to start ssh-daemon. -- Chris