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I currently use 192.168.1.10:85 to refer to my localhost ip address, and I setup port-based virtualhosts because this seems like the only feasible/practical way to view this from within Windows XP on my Debian's VirtualBox.

Is anyone else aware of some advanced techniques in which I could view it by the ServerName instead? I would assume I have to hook it up to some sort of DNS server?

I know I can also edit the hosts file in my Windows XP and point certain urls to my IP address, but it will always resolve to the primary default virtualhost.

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I have the same setup as you do (Debian host, VirtualBox, WinXP guest {plus a Win2k3 server guest}), and IP-based routing works fine without using ports.

Although I did create a hosts file entry in each VM that points to 192.168.56.1, there is no "harm" in doing that since the IP will never change.

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  • Could you provide details on your vhosts setup?
    – boot13
    Commented Aug 25, 2010 at 16:35
  • Each VM has 2 network adapters enabled. One is "host-only," which allows the VMs to see the host over TCPIP. The other is NAT, which allows the VMs to "share" the host's external network.
    – Tom
    Commented Aug 26, 2010 at 12:57
  • So you had to manually mess with the network adapters? I'll try this out next week.
    – meder omuraliev
    Commented Aug 28, 2010 at 0:50

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