Virtualbox port forward from Guest to Host

Question

Here is my setup   - Host  Windows XP - Guest  Ubuntu 10 04 - Networking  NAT   I am setting an Apache web server on the Guest  but I want to be able to do this on the Windows machine   - go to the browser  type http   localhost 8000   Also  I tried to change my networking to bridge and I got a new IP  But when I tried to do http    8000  it says that it could not connect

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That s not possible  localhost always defaults to the loopback device on the local operating system  As your virtual machine runs its own operating system it has its own loopback device which you cannot access from the outside   If you want to access it e g  in a browser  connect to it using the local IP instead   http   192 168 180 1 8000   This is just an example of course  you can find out the actual IP by issuing an ifconfig command on a shell in the guest operating system

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Network communication Host - gt  Guest Connect to the Guest and find out the ip address  ifconfig   example of result  ip address is 10 0 2 15   eth0      Link encap Ethernet  HWaddr 08 00 27 AE 36 99           inet addr 10 0 2 15  Bcast 10 0 2 255  Mask 255 255 255 0  Go to Vbox instance window - gt  Menu - gt  Network adapters   adapter should be NAT click on  quot port forwarding quot  insert new record    icon   for host ip enter 127 0 0 1  and for guest ip address you got from prev  step  in my case it is 10 0 2 15  in your case port is 8000 - put it on both  but you can change host port if you prefer    Go to host system and try it in browser  http   127 0 0 1 8000  or your network ip address  find out on the host machine by running  ipconfig   Network communication Guest - gt  Host In this case port forwarding is not needed  the communication goes over the LAN back to the host  On the host machine - find out your netw ip address  ipconfig  example of result  IP Address                          192 168 5 1  On the guest machine you can communicate directly with the host  e g  check it with ping    ping 192 168 5 1 PING 192 168 5 1  192 168 5 1  56 84  bytes of data  64 bytes from 192 168 5 1  icmp seq 1 ttl 128 time 2 30 ms      Firewall issues   Stranger suggested that in some cases it would be necessary to open used port  8000 or whichever is used  in firewall like this  example for ufw firewall  I haven t tested   sudo ufw allow 8000

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