Get localhost working in VMWare

Localhost in VMWare VM

Connect to your Mac's localhost from within a VMWare virtual machine.

- Boot up VMware and fire up your VM (i'm using Windows 7)
- Make sure that the VM is using NAT
- Fire up the command prompt in Windows and type "ipconfig". IN the resulting text look for your IPv4 address. It will be something like 192.168.xxx.xxx
- Now go to your browser in your VM and type that ip address into the url bar but change the last set of digits to be 2 (or 1).
- so as an example if your ip was found to be 192.168.213.200 change it to be 192.168.213.2
- Assuming that your localhost is running on your mac you should get your localhost in your VM browser.
- If you need to add a non standard port number on the end like 8090 go ahead and do so.


Adding to a hosts file

- Make a new entry in the hosts file that maps to this address. You can't add custom port numbers in a Windows hosts file.

Thank you for your contribution. It helped me a bunch. I wrote a more in depth article to help others who come upon your instructions and may need more information at http://boulderapps.co/make-your-xampp-site-on-your-mac-accessible-to-windows-on-vmware

Worked like a charm, thanks

Very helpful, thankyou.

Works fine, didn't know that. I'm trying to do the reverse now. ^^

I get "403 Forbidden" error on my windows 7 virtual machine... any ideas?

This worked for me, but I had to also add a second network adapter set to 'Host-only'.

For what it's worth, my set-up is as follows:

• Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
• Default OS X Apache and PHP
• VirtualHostX for creating the virtual hosts on my Mac

Who would have thought it could be that easy. Working great, thanks

You the man

I'm curious, is there a particular reason for changing the found ip from 192.168.213.200 to 192.168.213.2 ?

One of my ports (9000) works, but 1234 and 34212 does not. Any advice?

Woah. Only one of my dev servers works on port 9000. If I try to switch what was on 1234 over to 9000, it doesn't work. That seems like some sort of project config not a VMware thing. Will share when I get to the bottom of this

Answer Edit: webpack dev server needs to be run with flag --host 0.0.0.0 if you want it to accept requests from outside your local machine (in your local network).

Worked perfectly! ✨

Thanks to @Kwon11, I finally figured out how to connect to my macOS Hugo server from Windows IE Edge tester box.

On my mac, when firing up the Hugo server:

hugo serve --port=1337 --bind=0.0.0.0

Then, on my macOS, get IP from System Preferences > Network and use that in Edge to connect:

http://192.168.0.16:1337/

My VMWare Fusion is setup to use NAT.