Thanks for detailed email. I followed your instructions step by step. Also I've understand all the steps. inet addr: value in my virtual appliance is 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>. But when I point to http://127.0.0.1 it says: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>.
You have to take care of your Virtual Machine (VM) Ethernet setting. Your VM network connection can be: bridged, NAT or host-only. (1) It seems you have a host-only connection. It implies that your VM and host system can't communicate at all. In host-only mode, VM don't see the outside, and so the Internet. (2) The 'bridged' connection is the simplest solution: Kyle instructions will work. But you need a DHCP server on your network in order to lease an IP address to your VM. Even in this case, you may encounter some very tricky issues depending of VM Linux OS security policy. (3) NAT setting: don't rember... but I'm almost sure it won't work since host and VM share a unique IP address. -- Frédéric