Comments on: Howto: Port forward to Your Virtual Machine

By: bev

bev — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:56:37 +0000

I installed Windows Server 2008 R2 in Oracle Virtual Box,also WAMP server inside Windows server 2008 R2.

I am able to open/access the WAMP server in my Virtual Box guest OS that is the local host.

But I am unable to access the WAMP server from the host OS.

The host OS is Windows 7

How can this be fixed?

By: kadishmal

kadishmal — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:01:04 +0000

Hey, man! You saved my life! I’ve been trying to forward my ip to VM guest for a week and could not succeed. Just did what you advised, set forward port THROUGH VM Virtual Network Editor and good to go! Thanks for sharing your experience!

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By: benrobb

benrobb — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:39:46 +0000

It’s been a long time since I played with VMWare server. I’m not sure what version it was on at the time I was using it, but it was the free version.

By: henington

henington — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:35:14 +0000

I’m having the same issue, however, i’m using the free VMware server 2.0 running on a Windows host. The guest OS is an image.

Internally, everything works fine. But with port 80 pointing to the VM image, it does not work. When i forward port 80 to a different system it works great.

I dont see a lot of the settings you discussed above, in Vmware Server 2.0. Has this functionality been removed from the free version?

By: @vikramsetia

@vikramsetia — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:21:19 +0000

This works for me. (port Forwarding) I have 2 IPs assigned to my server. My server port 80 is running a few applications so I do not want port 80 to port 80 forwarding. How can I assign the second IP to forward to virtual port 80?

By: mark

mark — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:11:14 +0000

I am hosting a webserver within a VMWare image running Ubuntu/Tomcat. I am using verizon fios with a static ip. I have set up the virtual server to listen for traffic on port 9000 (changed from port 80) to test. For some reason I cannot see the server from outside the firewall. I was on the phone for 4 hours with verizon today trying to troubleshoot the problem, and no love. Any ideas?

By: benrobb

benrobb — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:35:41 +0000

@Federico, yes, these instructions are for VMs with a host OS, and specifically for VMs running with VMWare. Unfortunately, I don’t have any experience with the setup you’re describing.

By: federico

federico — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:21:53 +0000

If I have understood you are talking about VMs with an host OS. I have the same problem (if I make a port forward in my router to the ip address of
my linux vm I can’t reach it) but I’m using an ESXi server. It doesn’t give the possibility to forward packets to another address…..

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:11:33 +0000

Thank you, this helped dearly!