#Open Remote - SSH

##SSH Host Requirements

You can connect to a running SSH server on the following platforms.

Supported:

• ›x86_64 Debian 8+, Ubuntu 16.04+, CentOS / RHEL 7+ Linux
• ›ARMv7l (AArch32) Raspbian Stretch/9+ (32-bit)
• ›ARMv8l (AArch64) Ubuntu 18.04+ (64-bit)
• ›IBM Z (s390x) Debian 13, RHEL 8+, Ubuntu 22.04+, SLES 15+
• ›macOS 10.14+ (Mojave)
• ›Windows 10+
• ›FreeBSD 13+ (Requires custom serverDownloadUrlTemplate setting)
• ›DragonFlyBSD (Requires manual remote-extension-host installation)

##Requirements

Activation

NOTE: Not needed in VSCodium since version 1.75

Enable the extension in your argv.json

{
    ...
    "enable-proposed-api": [
        ...,
        "jeanp413.open-remote-ssh",
    ]
    ...
}

which you can open by running the Preferences: Configure Runtime Arguments command. The file is located in ~/.vscode-oss/argv.json.

Alpine linux

When running on alpine linux, the packages libstdc++ and bash are necessary and can be installed via running

sudo apk add bash libstdc++

##SSH configuration file

OpenSSH supports using a configuration file to store all your different SSH connections. To use an SSH config file, run the Remote-SSH: Open SSH Configuration File... command.