Developing and testing with MAMP and VirtualBox.

I just installed MAMP. WOW!

Unfortunately it creates a small problem. I normally check my sites’ progress with IE6 and IE7 using VirtualBox. This works fine for accessing a remotely hosted site, but I don’t know how to access a local site because the http://localhost:8888/... URL that MAMP and local browsers use doesn’t work for the virtual machine browsers.

Any thoughts?

Hello,

look at this article http://mydebian.blogdns.org/?p=111 it’s seems are not easy, but may be helpfull for you.

Also, if you want more service for you Guest OS i advise to read this http://samiux.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/bridge-network-interface-on-virtualbox/ it’s give your Guest OS real local network

But as for me i select Qemu (http://bellard.org/qemu/) for myself.

Hope it’s help you,
Good luck!