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Asked: 2026-05-31T17:45:03+00:00

I’m running visual studio 2010 on Windows 7 through parallels on my mac. I

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I’m running visual studio 2010 on Windows 7 through parallels on my mac. I want to be able to access its local host on osx for testing purposes. I really have no idea what steps that I’d have to take to do this, so any help at all would be appreciated.

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    1. Map the VM’s IP to a domain in your /private/etc/hosts file in OSX (i.e. testsite.local) or just access via the VM’s IP directly. Of course, for the same, map in your VM’s host file as well (i.e. c:/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts map 127.0.0.1 to testsite.local)

    2. Map appropriately in IIS in VM.

    3. Make sure applicable port/s are opened in your VM Windows firewall (standard port 80 and 443 usually enough).
    4. Done.

    I very rarely use the built-in VS Development Server, so can’t say anything on that.

    Troubleshooting:

    1. Make sure it works in the VM first 😉
    2. Turn off your firewall temporarily to make sure it’s not a firewall issue.
    3. Make sure you’ve got your network settings set applicable. I haven’t been working with a Mac for all that long, so haven’t bothered testing with anything other than bridged.
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