To exit Scale Mode, press: Right Ctrl (Host Key) + c Note that your (Host Key) may be different from Right Ctrl. To check the current binding, go to VirtualBox Preferences > Input > Virtual Machine > Host Key Combination.
Googling turned this up: http://data.agaric.com/localhost-from-virtualbox-xp-install-ubuntu It suggests using IP: http://10.0.2.2, and it worked for me. So, I edited the hosts file, C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, and added this entry: 10.0.2.2 outer If you’re testing on IE8, remember to put http:// in the address bar. Just putting the ip directly will not work. For example: http://10.0.2.2:3000/