Add integration with SSH

[zeminzhou]

What are you trying to do? A description of what you want to happen. I want to use VScode SSH to VM, but seemingly I can only use “multipass shell vm-name" to interact with an instance

[Saviq]

Hi @zeminzhou, you can use --cloud-init <file> to populate the authorized keys, like so:

ssh_authorized_keys:
    - <your key>

Then, if using Hyper-V, you can use <instance-name>.mshome.net as the host you're trying to connect to. If using VirtualBox, you'll need to forward the SSH port from the instance, or use the new --network feature to have direct networking between your host and the instance.

We plan to improve this by populating your ssh config with instances so they're always in sync.

[zeminzhou]

Think your answer

[gparmeggiani]

We plan to improve this by populating your ssh config with instances so they're always in sync.

I think this would be very useful.

[nikelborm]

The only thing left is to manually copy or link private key from internal multipass store as explained here: https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/913