Comments on: Accessing Mac virtual hosts from a Parallels VM

By: Mark Fox

Mark Fox — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:20:10 +0000

Oh snap! That was easy. Even works with MAMP! Thanks so much.

By: Miguel Arroz

Miguel Arroz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:20:31 +0000

Sure! Just add an entry for each virtual host, using the same IP in the Windows hosts file.

By: Mark Fox

Mark Fox — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:32:28 +0000

Great tutorial, super simple to follow and was able to get working in a jiff.

Additionally, I was wondering if anyone knows how to get this to work with virtual hosts. Bear with me as I try to explain using my half-baked knowledge of Apache/Networking.

The above works fine for anything I might have at “http://localhost/” but I usually have two to three projects hosted on my Mac and I like to use virtual host aliases (?terminology?) that I can access at something like “http://project1/” & “http://project2/” — is there way to access these virutalhosts using this same trick?

By: Miguel Arroz

Miguel Arroz — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:01:54 +0000

I still did not upgrade to Snow Leopard (as I’m waiting for PGP). Anyway, I had experienced issues when installing the OS X upgrades (ie, like from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7) with Parallels 3. The network ports were still there, but they didn’t work at all unless I reinstalled Parallels after the upgrade. I think I don’t have that issue since I upgraded to Parallels 4.0, but it may be something similar to what I’ve experienced. Have you tried to re-install Parallels?

By: Melksedek

Melksedek — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:56:02 +0000

Unfortunately, with Parallels 4.0 and Snow Leopard, somehow on shared network my Parallels NAT adapter no longer appears in the System Preferences and despite my sincerest efforts I was unable to do anything. Instead, I used bridging but it is quite nasty because I have to use 2 IP’s from the network instead of passing through the Mac’s IP…any similar issues?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:41:38 +0000

Huh. Interesting. I have a site on my mac in /Library/WebServer/Documents/, and one in /Users/Shared/. The one in /Users/Shared/ is configured with a named Virtual Host in my apache config. On my mac, I type drupaltesting.dev, and it takes me to that site. To reach the one in /Library/WebServer/Documents/, I just hit localhost. When I try your trick, drupaltesting.dev from Parallels resolves to the localhost site, not my drupaltesting.dev site. I’m puzzling over why this is.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:48:06 +0000

Thanks a bunch!

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By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:15:56 +0000

Brilliant – thank you! Worked great, saves me a TON of hassle.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:37:58 +0000

Thank you for posting this information! I am developing using mac host and vmWare running IEs and this advice is also relevant to me. Also, came here via google!

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:34:06 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for this – googled for this info and came across this page. It’s easy to follow and is well explained, and it worked! So thanks – you saved my ass!