To check the IP address of your VM you can run the the ip addr show
command
which will producve the following or something similar:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:50:56:a8:c8:4c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.201.24.179/22 brd 10.201.27.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
lo
: is the loop back address.eth0
: is the IP we would need to connect to the virtual machine
If the IP address was not set within the VM you're able to set it by running:
ip addr add 123.123.1.20/24 dev eth0
This will set the IP address for eth0
allowing you to connect via SSH