Access Tomcat localhost:8080 of guest VirtualBox VM from Host OS

localhost, tomcat, virtual-machine

Solution

Get the IP Address of your guest OS and access it via that.

Problem

I have an XP laptop on which I am running an Ubuntu distro inside VirtualBox which is running a website via Tomcat. When I am in the VM I can access the site with localhost:8080/ What I really need to do, though, is to access the VM localhost from XP. vm-computer-name:8080/ isn't recognized. Any help is much appreciated.

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