Make sure your VM uses shared networking.What you need to do is make sure your virtual machines use shared networking, find the IP address your Mac has in the VM’s virtual network, and use that address in the hosts file of the OS running in each virtual machine. In case there are others who didn’t know this and wasted their time editing hosts files, here’s how. Well, I recently found out that this can be avoided. One thing that’s been bothering me for a long time, though, was that whenever my Mac got a new IP address I had to open the hosts file in all my virtual machines and enter that address to access my sites. It works well, including accessing local development sites set up as virtual hosts in Apache on my Mac. Like many other Mac-using web developers I use Parallels Desktop for testing in various versions of Internet Explorer. IP address-independent access to Mac virtual hosts from Parallels virtual machines
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