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