I'm trying to connect to a PostgreSQL database hosted on a Win7 guest from a Win7 host.

I've configured security in pg_hba.conf

host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          md5
host    all         all         10.0.2.15/32          md5
host    all         all         192.168.1.6/32        md5

and set the listen_addresses setting in postgresql.conf to '*'.

I think I've set up port forwarding correctly as I see:

Key: VBoxInternal/Devices/e1000/0/LUN#0/Config/win7_vm1/GuestPort, Value: 5432
Key: VBoxInternal/Devices/e1000/0/LUN#0/Config/win7_vm1/HostPort, Value: 5432
Key: VBoxInternal/Devices/e1000/0/LUN#0/Config/win7_vm1/Protocol, Value: TCP

when I call getextradata.

This is similar to http://serverfault.com/questions/106168/cant-connect-to-postgresql-on-virtualbox-guest but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

In the vbox.log file I see:

00:00:01.019 NAT: set redirect TCP host port 5432 => guest port 5432 @ 10.0.2.15 00:00:01.033 NAT: failed to redirect TCP 5432 => 5432

but I'm not sure how to fix that. Any ideas? Thanks.