Addressing localhost from a virtualbox virtual machine

Questions

I have a local test/development server (http, of course), listening to port 8000,

I m working on Linux, so to test the page on IE6/7/8 etc I run a virtual machine using virtual box; I also need to see how it look on firefox in a windows environment (fonts for instance are different).

In my real machine, I open the website simply using the URL http://localhost:8000, how do I address this localhost from the virtual machine?

Right now my workaround is to use the IP address. Any better ideas?

Answers

http://data.agaric.com/localhost-from-virtualbox-xp-install-ubuntu http://data.agaric.com/localhost-from-virtualbox-xp-install-ubuntu

It suggests using IP: http://10.0.2.2, and it worked for me.

So, I edited the hosts file, C:windowssystem32driversetchosts, and added this entry:

10.0.2.2   outer

If you re testing on IE8, remember to put http:// in the address bar. Just putting the ip directly will not work.

For example:

http://10.0.2.2:3000/

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1261975/addressing-localhost-from-a-virtualbox-virtual-machine

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