VirtualBox host IP address and hostname
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
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.
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