Like many other Mac-using web developers I use Parallels Desktop for testing in various versions of Internet Explorer. It works well, including accessing local development sites set up as virtual hosts in Apache on my Mac.
One thing that’s been bothering me for a long time, though, was that whenever my Mac got a new IP address I had to open the hosts file in all my virtual machines and enter that address to access my sites. Pretty tedious. Well, I recently found out that this can be avoided. In case there are others who didn’t know this and wasted their time editing hosts files, here’s how.
Posted in Productivity, Virtual Machines.
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