title: VSCode Remote SSH cannot identify private key file
body: <p>Been trying to solve this for hours already. Already searched the net and follow tutorials but nothing is working.</p>
  <p>In my Windows local machine I installed Remote SSH plugin in VSCode. I'm trying to connect to my remote linux server. <br/></p>
  <p>My config file looks like this (changed hostname and user to dummy values for security).</p>
  <pre><code>Host RemoteServer
      HostName remote.server.infra
      User user123
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/privkey
  </code></pre>
  <p>When trying to connect to New Host. It keeps prompting for password.
  As per checking the logs it is saying</p>
  <pre><code>no such identity: C:\\Users\\user123/.ssh/privkey: No such file or directory
  </code></pre>
  <p>This privkey file is the exact file I'm using in my putty when connecting to remote server.
  What am I missing?</p>
  <p>EDIT:
  Finally figured it out. I had to convert my private key to openssh format with puttygen.</p>