ssh: connect to host localhost port 2223: Connection timed out

[TheHashCoin-project]

I am trying to use gitian-builder (KVM) on an Ubuntu 18 host. I managed to get the base vm built and formatted correctly with bin/make-base-vm and make-clean-vm, however, after starting with start-target when trying to login with on-target, after about 30 seconds I get the aforementioned connection timeout error. I have verified that all required dependencies are installed, VT-x hardware virtualization is enabled in BIOS and that all the typical sanity checks pass. The target.log reads: ``qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]

A previous attempt rendered an error in the target.log about not being able to forward localhost port 2223 to the default ssh port (22)

Can someone please tell me what I am missing? ]:

Thanks in advance!