Web Access to Virtual Machine

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Is their a way to access a web server such as windows server 2003 installed on a virtual box such as vmware from the host machine?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '08 at 14:57

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If VMware is set to use bridged networking, then each guest OS effectively has its own IP address, like brien said, you just point your browser to that address.

answered Sep 19 '08 at 14:57

Gabriel Ross

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perfect, i didn't want it to take over my localhost address if possible. – ethyreal Sep 19 '08 at 14:59

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '08 at 15:01

If you configure your virtual machine to use bridged networking, instead of NAT, it will have its own IP address "beside" the host machine, instead of a local IP address "behind" it. Then you can connect to the virtual machine, using that IP number.

(Disclaimer: I've used VMware workstation for several years, but not their server products.)

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 19 '08 at 14:54

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Yes, you should just be able to point to the IP address of the VM.

How is your VM networking configured?

answered Sep 19 '08 at 14:54

brien

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it was set to NAT networking, but i'm going to change it to bridged and assign it an ip address now. – ethyreal Sep 19 '08 at 15:02

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 19 '08 at 14:56

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I am doing this all over the place, just make sure that the vm has an ip configured.

answered Sep 19 '08 at 14:56

DevelopingChris

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 24 '08 at 11:48

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i believe vmware (workstation?) also has built in a virtual network client (VNC) that you can connect to - enable it by going to the configuration properties of the vm, and in the last tab there is a checkbox for it.

answered Sep 24 '08 at 11:48

Chii

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 28 '08 at 11:49

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IP address should do it.

answered Sep 28 '08 at 11:49

David Robbins

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 17 '19 at 11:55

I faced the same issue. You have to set your networkconnection to "bridged mode" in your VM. Then you have to find out the IP of your Webserver.

Sometimes Webservers have a redirect to a specific URL. In this case you can edit your host-file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts and add your IP with the redirected URL like this:

192.168.0.37 some.url-you.need

Then your Host can go to the Webserver. Even participants of your Ethernet can access the Webserver.

Web Access to Virtual Machine

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