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

Question

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

Answer 1

The following helped me after a new VM and tomcat installation.

Get the IP address of the Guest OS and the port number on which tomcat was started. Then you can access it via:

IP:Port/

In case you are not able to access it still or if you get no response, try

sudo iptables -F

This would flush the tables and would reflect the new mapping. You would need to do this only once though.