title: Sharing localhost with ipad over wifi
body: <p>I really have no idea how to ask this, so with that have no idea where to search either. So.. I have a unique situation I think.</p>
  
  <p>I have virtual box installed, with a local running server on it. I access it through my windows machine the host machine rather. via 127.0.0.1:3001. So I am here developing an app that can only be hosted on the virtual machine, as there are a lot of moving parts specific to  it that can't be hosted on a WAMP or even a typical web-server elsewhere. The vm OS is Ubuntu.  So here I am with a slight issue I want to see how this looks on my iPad, and a couple other tablets as the software being built into the VM is browser based as far as the GUI goes. </p>
  
  <p>So theres the pretense. Heres the delima I want to use the built in browser on ipad to navigate to the browser based portion of my app on the VM like I can do through the Host machine. But Im not entirely sure how to achieve that. Its gotta be done over Wifi but what would I need to do to set that up accordingly?</p>
  
  <p>Host Machine is Windows 7 Ultimate, VM is Ubuntu 10.x. This is not a screen sharing notion either. I don't want a to remote view the PC I want to type in the equivilant of 127.0.0.1:3001 into my ipad browser and view the service like I do vm to host machine.</p>