How to connect to a serverside process on Ubuntu running in a VM?

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Published on 2012-03-23T10:37:18Z Indexed on 2012/03/23 11:40 UTC
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I am running Ubuntu 11.10 in VirtualBox, on Windows 7. I'm trying to setup a serverside process like Apache on it. How do I configure VirtualBox to allow access to the Ubuntu server process from other computers on the network?

  1. I can access the internet from Ubuntu.
  2. The Windows 7 computer is on a WiFi network using DHCP.
  3. The WiFi network has a dynamic IP with the network provider.

This is my current configuration:

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