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Hi Andy, that really doesn't answer the question. I'm aware of how to hit guest VMs via the IP address, however that requires both a reworking of my application and - worse - setting up a bridged network and bouncing all requests off a shared router. In my situation I work a lot from a variety of coffee shops and the constant reconfiguration is a nonstarter. As I noted, this is certainly something that is possible as when you run an application in docker it does precisely this, allowing you to use localhost that is forwarded into the container (which outside of linux is in a VM.
– George Mauer
Commented Jan 30, 2019 at 3:36
You should tag your question with 'docker' then so that people who are more familiar with your environment will be able to help.
– Andy
Commented Jan 31, 2019 at 19:04
But I'm not using docker, I'm simply pointing to the fact that docker does this as proof that it is possible. If I tagged it with docker, I'd get blasted for drawing docker people to a question that has nothing to do with docker
– George Mauer
Commented Feb 1, 2019 at 16:48

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