Comments on: Setting up parallels and virtual hosts on your macbook

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:25:52 +0000

Chris wins with his Bonjour for Windows!!

That was soooooooooooooo simple and quick. A whole lot easier than the convoluted procedure described on this page.

Thanks for sharing Chris.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:38:09 +0000

There is a much easier way: install Bonjour for Windows.

Get your Mac’s Bonjour name from the Services tab of the Sharing pane in the Apple System Preferences. There’s a message like “Other computers on your local subnet can access your computer at your-computer.local”.

In Windows (i.e. Parallels) go to http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/download/ and download and run the Windows Bonjour installer. Note the comment in the installation instructions about opening a port in your computer’s firewall (this is also done at the Sharing pane, if required).

Start Internet Explorer/Firefox in Windows and go to http://your-computer.local (or whatever your Bonjour name is, as above).

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:01:27 +0000

Anyone get this working with Leopard and MAMP? Assistance appreciated.

By: Rob L.

Rob L. — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:26:11 +0000

Thanks for publishing this; very helpful! I’m not sure why the first part of step 2 (setting up a secondary ip for the Windows VM) is necessary, though. I skipped right over that to adding the appropriate entry to Windows’ Hosts file, and it seems to work fine… Am I missing something?

By: Janne RiihimÃ¤ki

Janne RiihimÃ¤ki — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:27:36 +0000

Had a little bit of trouble finding “Systemsteuerung / Netzwerkverbindungen / LAN-Verbindung / TCP/IP / Eigenschaften” but now I got it. Works so well. Excellent, thank you.

By: N.Cauldwell

N.Cauldwell — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:57:17 +0000

Finally figured it out.

Following this tutorial and creating a virtualhost in Apache & /etc/hosts was enough to get this working – I just needed to tell the CMS config files, (e.g. in WordPress it’s ‘wp-config.php’) to reference the virtualhost name instead of ‘localhost’. Then the CMS will generate links that reference the virtualhost instead of localhost. Easy!

By: N.Cauldwell

N.Cauldwell — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:57:03 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial, v. helpful. However, I’m stuck with trying to get a MAMP Apache server on ‘localhost’ OS X to work in XP on Parallels.

It looks like everyone here has used a name other than ‘localhost’ for their servers, but I don’t know how to rename a server to something other than ‘localhost’. This means that, although I can see my virtualhost in XP, as soon as I hit a link, I’m taken through to ‘localhost’ (because that is where MySQL is installed and hence where links are generated from), and everything breaks on XP, because the localhost is the reserved loopback address.

What am I doing wrong?

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:58:10 +0000

Thank you.
This tutorial is the only one i found which works really. You saved my mac book, because i was thinking of chancing my dev system to windows.

By: Donovan

Donovan — Mon, 21 May 2007 22:15:26 +0000

This is a life saver. Thank you! It’s so great to have something that works the first time.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:53:21 +0000

You rock – thanks for writing this up. Worked like a charm.

By: Joseph M

Joseph M — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:06:24 +0000

I set the web server on my mac as instructed and but where do I put all my wesbite files and what address do I use in the browser to access this locally?