[thelist] VMware: Accessing localhost on host from client

[Tim Burgan]

Thanks Ken

Can I please get some clarification:

a} to get my IP address I type from the command line:
ipconfig
  This gives me three different IP's along the lines of:
  1. Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8: 192.168.80.1
  2. Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1: 192.168.202.1
  3. Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:   192.168.1.4

I've tried all of them in the VMware client and nothing happens..

b) I don't understand the way VMware networks, but I changed from NAT to 
Bridged and then the Host-Only, and they didn't even connect to the 
internet when I booted the client. (But I guess I need to change some 
settings in the client - but I dunno what)


Thanks for your assistance so far, if you have time can you please clear 
up some of these points.

Thanks again.

Tim


Ken Schaefer wrote:

>Sure.
>
>a) Type in http://<IP Address of host OS>
>
>b) Change networking options, so that the client OS is not behind the
>VMWare NAT service
>
>c) Type in http://<any resolvable dns name that points to the host>
>
>http://localhost/ will not work (as a general rule) because by default
>that's pointed to 127.0.0.1 which is a loopback address. If you change
>your settings so that "localhost" resolves to the *host* rather than
>the *client*, then http://localhost will work as well.
>
>Cheers
>Ken
>
>
>On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:24:29 +0930, Tim Burgan <email at timburgan.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm using VMware to perform platform and browser testing.
>>
>>Is it possible to - from the client machine in VMware to get access to
>>http://localhost/ on the host machine so that I do not always need to
>>upload everything to the net?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Tim
>>    
>>

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