IE on VirtualBox to visit http://localhost on Mac OS X host

Question

I use VirtualBox on my Mac to run IE for testing, but sometimes I want to test http://localhost. Is there a way to do that?

Solution

Open Terminal, and type "ifconfig" to find out the IP address of the Mac OS X network interface. Look for en0: or en1:, for the field named "inet". It should be something like 192.168.1.100. Then type that in IE's address bar, like http://192.168.1.100/

(By the way, I don't have enough rep to do it, but this should probably be on SuperUser)

Comments

[David Mackintosh]

Localhost on the Mac, or localhost on the VirtualBox VM? From the Mac, or from the VirtualBox VM?

[Chris_K]

keep in mind that every machine thinks that it is named "localhost".