Answers: Port forwarding on Parallel Desktop

Hoang Lam

My situation is like this. I have a Windows 7 VM run by Parallel Desktop, on which I run ASP.NET on localhost:1240 (Visual Studio development server). Is it possible from my host machine (OSX 10.9) to be able to test the website using port forwarding, i.e. accessing the site in OSX from http://:

Thank you in advance.

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windows 7 - Forward Ports on Parallels

Derek Dahmer

I have a dev server on port 8080 on my mac, and I'm trying to access it from a clean installation of Windows 7 in parallels.

Ipconfig says my VM's IP address is 10.211.55.3. I can access the mac web sharing service at 10.211.55.2:80/ but not my own webserver (GAE) at 10.211.55.2:8080/

Parallels set to Shared Networking and is able to browse the internet fine
Firewall is off in both windows and mac
I installed bonjour for windows as a few forums said to do. I can then use my-computer-name.local/ but same deal as before, port 8080 doesn't work
Tried adding a port forwarding entry of 8080,TCP,10.211.55.3,8080 to Parallels Desktop > Preferences > Advanced > Port forwarding rules

Related Answers

Just Jake

Can you access your testing server on :8080 from other real machines on your network? It could be that your development server software accepts only connections from your local machine (127.0.0.1 aka localhost).

Renaud

Jake's answer worked for me, too. On jboss, just start the server with

-b 0.0.0.0

and access it via

http://COMPUTERNAME:8080

Note: no need to use "local"

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