Address VMWare Fusion Linux guest by hostname?

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Published on 2009-11-18T16:22:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 16:03 UTC
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ubuntu-9.04

I have a Ubuntu Server 9.04 image set up in VMWare Fusion 3.0.0, using the NAT option for the guest's network connection. From the Mac host, I can ssh to the linux guest just fine using it's IP address, but I would like to be able to refer to it by hostname for connivence. ie:

mac-host:~ ssh [email protected]

I had a similar setup using Parallels a couple years ago, but I don't remember how it was set up. It may have "just worked".

Any suggestion on how to make this work?

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