I am a web developer and my development platform is Mac. I have installed a copy of Windows XP in VMWare fusion for testing purposes and using IE for previwing my websites. I have Apache running on my Mac with several subdomains, like test.localhost etc.
How can I access the webserver on host OS from the guest OS?
Thank you in advance.
Using Fusion 6.0.2 on OS X 10.9 Mavericks
turn off your virtual machine
open the "Virtual Machine | Network Adapter | Network Adapter Settings..." menu
in the "Bridget Networking" section choose "Autodetect":
when Win7 asks: "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?" click on the "Yes" button
navigate to: "Computer | Local disk (C:) | Windows | System32 | drivers | etc"
select "All files" in the drop down menu on the right of the "file name:" field
double click the "hosts" file
192.168.1.106 in the example
in the example I configured two sites: localhost and caeb.leo
Hope it helps!