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Asked: 2026-05-23T09:50:56+00:00

Background: On my Windows 7 machine I have a web development virtual machine running

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Background:

On my Windows 7 machine I have a web
development virtual machine running
Ubuntu. The VM’s network structure is set to NAT (as opposed to bridge,
etc.). I run additional virtual
machines of XP with different IE
browsers on them for testing.

My Question:

I know that when using NAT on a
virtual machine, you are able to
access the web server from the host
inside of a virtual machine by
directing a web browser to 10.0.2.2.
If http://localhost is hosted on
Virtual Machine A (Ubuntu). How do I access that from Virtual
Machine B (any XP VM)?

Edit:

I am looking for an elegant solution,
similar to that of using 10.0.2.2 as
described above. I would prefer not
to have to specify dynamic IP’s for
the VM’s as well as not having to look
up the VM’s IP every time I want to
access it. Is anything like this
possible?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just put the IP address of VM A instead of localhost in the browser of VM B.

    This assumes theres no firewall rules preventing it from being accessed.

    Its worth doing a ping test from VM B first to eliminate any other issues first.

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