Access Parallels Windows localhost from Mac [closed]

Question

I use Windows (7) OS as a development platform, running on a Mac / Parallels Desktop 5.

I would like to access the Windows localhost - from the Mac side for testing purposes.

I've found many solutions of accessing the other way around (access Mac's localhost from Windows) - but found no solution for this access direction (if any).

Any idea ? Is it possible ?

Answer 1

The above didn't help me, but this did:

• Go to Windows VM, go to Start --> Run... --> type cmd.exe

• The windows command line opens. Type ipconfig and find out your IP4-adress.

• Edit your macs hosts file as described in this blogpost. Put in the following line, replacing my windows VMs local IP (here 10.211.55.5) with the one you found out in the step before:

  10.211.55.5   windows 

Then, you can access the localhost of windows using win instead of localhost, for example http://windows:8080/someapp

Answer 2

I had the same problem as you Ranch. I'm running Win7 on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) / Parallels 5. I solved my localhost problem on mac , by turning off win7 firewall and "enable" anonymous authentication in Authentication setting in IIS Manager.

Also I've configured in parallels:

1. Configure - hardware - Network adapter 1: Default Adapter

2. Preferences - network - connection type - shared networking

Edit: For Parallels 8

1. Configure > Hardware > Network adapter 1: Default Adapter

2. Preferences > Advanced > Network: Change Settings > Shared