I have a remote server on which I connect using the RemoteSSH extension.
I connect to remote from two different computers, say A (home) and B (work).
The remote has various extensions (eg, Python, Julia, Jupyter, etc) installed.
When I work on remote from A, everything is ok. I can for example select Python interpreters.
When I connect to remote using B, VSCode no longer finds interpreters. Indeed I cannot even find the settings extensions (see picture). But it is the same remote I connect to.
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I have a Linux machine with VSCode on it, with extensions installed at /home/myuser/.vscode/extensions/. Everything runs great. However, now I would like to connect to that machine remotely with "Remote - SSH" from a VSCode instance that runs on another computer. The connection was successful, but the extensions are all grayed-out and have "Install in SSH:..." buttons.
How can I get VSCode to find the extensions already installed on the remote (Linux) machine?
The extensions were installed using VSCode on the remote machine.
I looked through the settings for something that might have to do with it, but couldn't find. I didn't install anything remotely yet ("Install in SSH:...") because I was afraid that it might clash with the existing installation.
With the remote-ssh extension, we can use vscode's remote development feature now, which means we can access the files in a remote machine from local vscode. And I found except the remote-ssh extension, there is a vscode-server working on remote machine to communicate with local vscode.
Looks like it's the bridge between local vscode and the file system in remote machine, which say vscode access remote files through the .vscode-server. But when I read vscode's source code, I still didn't find which protocol do they used to communicate, looks like it's not http, maybe it's ssh, but I still didn't get the details. Does any one know the details between local and remote on access remote file system? Such as how does the client initiate a file read, and how does the remote return the file content to the client, which protocol they use. And how remote executes command from local, such as the git commands in source control.
We can find some source code of the vscode-server in vscode:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/server-main.js
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/node
not a complete answer but the extension that provides the remote connection is Microsoft/Github's "remote-ssh" (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh). VS Code uses the ssh channel for effectively a peer-to-peer proprietary exchange between the local and remote machines after bootstrapping the process by using the ssh connection to issue commands to install their VS Code Server and its dependencies.
VS Code extensions generally have a link in their info to a Github repo containing the source but in the case of remote-ssh the repo is for feedback only & the code does not appear to be open source.
(https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-release)
Note the remote-ssh extension is using remote code execution primarily to "take advantage of VS Code's full feature set" (presumably including remote build and debugging) rather than simple file access. That extension does provide remote file access, but there are far simpler extensions such as ftp-simple which provide only that.
I have VSCode set up with the "Remote - SSH" extension, and I am able to run a local VSCode window as the face of a full remote environment. Really cool.
However, I would also like to be able to set up a local VSCode environment which loads files from my local filesystem but runs them on a remote Python interpreter (via an SSH connection).
I am hoping I can run all the regular interactive Python REPL stuff using the remote kernel (e.g. show variables, etc). It seems like I should be able to somehow add a remote kernel and then select it via "Python: Select Interpreter", but I can't figure out how.
In the past I was able to configure such a setup in JupyterLab using the "remote_ikernel" package.
Is this possible in VSCode? I've found tons of documentation on the full remote setup, but haven't located information on this hybrid kind of set up.
I found a related bug report which discusses mixing local and remote filesystems (not interpreters).
I suspect that the same difficulties it describes for filesystems may be similar reasons for why local files can not be easily fed into remote interpreters.
The full thread is here for reference:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/706
The specific quote:
Having a mixed workspace would require that a workspace extension can be active both locally and remotely. Currently an extension can only be active once, either locally or remotely. So this is currently not possible and we have no plans to support this.
The recommendation is to have separate windows open for the local and remote workspace.
So it sound like this is a feature that is not currently supported.
I'm working on some tutorials and trying to do something, but no idea if it can be done. I am using windows terminal in Windows 10. I have an Ubuntu virtual machine running.
I'd like to:
Open Windows terminal
SSH into the Linux Virtual Machine
Type in the code . command and have it open a version of VS Code on my Windows PC that is working on the folder in the Ubuntu VM.
I tried install code locally and on the command line in the other machine, but it doesn't work. I am sure there are other ways to do this but wanted to explain how I was doing it to show I at least tried something. Thanks for your help.
It's not quite as easy as the code . technique you get with the Remote - WSL extension, but Microsoft also provides a Remote - SSH extension that can be used to directly access the remote machine (without requiring WSL in-the-middle).
Once the Remote - SSH extension is installed in VSCode (and it may have already been installed in an extension pack with the WSL extension), and you have installed an OpenSSH client in Windows, there are several ways to access files on the remote host through SSH:
From the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P), type Remote SSH to filter on those commands. From Connect to Host, you can add a new configuration, etc.
From the Activity Bar on the left, select the Remote Explorer icon, then in the dropdown at the top, select SSH Targets. You can add hosts here through the + icon.
There's a direct shortcut to Open a Remote Window at the far left of the status bar. This will give you similar filter options on the Command Palette as above.
Once a host is configured, you can browse it just as (well, almost) if it were local, open files, edit, etc. The one thing you can't do (as far as I'm aware) is any type of sudo/su editing on files that you don't have permissions to directly.
Full details in the VSCode docs here.
I have a database on a remote server as well as R located on an altogether different server. I access the database from my R script. I am using Eclipse with StatET on my local machine. Is there a way to use the debugging features of eclipse and make the script execute remotely on the server containing R? I keep running into things like remote console and various other scripts but can't seem to figure out what I actually need to do. My local machine is Windows, servers are both unix.
Thanks