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).
• macOS 10.14+ (Mojave)
• Windows 10+
• FreeBSD 13 (Requires manual remote-extension-host installation)

Requirements

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 gcompat, libstdc++, and procps are necessary and can be installed via running

sudo apk add gcompat libstdc++ procps