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VirtualBox host IP address and hostname

Arne Hartherz
March 26, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

When you are using NAT Show archive.org snapshot in your virtual machine (which you should), the host's IP address is:

10.0.2.2
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You'll need it to access shared folders or your host's web server when testing pages in IE.

Fun fact: You could also use vbox.srv -- that's the corresponding hostname.

Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2012-03-26 15:13)