Access host using localhost from container on MacOS

[hopoic]

Dear all,

I need to access host with localhost from container on MacOS.

1. Create container with host network mode (failed)
2. Create container with add-host "host.docker.internal:host-gateway" and access host using host.docker.internal (Failed)
3. Enable socket-vmnet

• I read https://docs.rancherdesktop.io/1.10/ui/preferences/virtual-machine/network/
• But I can't find the network settings menu in the virtual machine settings.
• I am running rancher desktop with administrative privileges, but I can't find network menu.

Does anyone know about this problem?

[vollink]

Are you looking for Port Forwarding?

[jandubois]

host.docker.internal should work even without the host-gateway setting:

❯ docker run -it --rm busybox ping host.docker.internal
Unable to find image 'busybox:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/busybox
559c60843878: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:498a000f370d8c37927118ed80afe8adc38d1edcbfc071627d17b25c88efcab0
Status: Downloaded newer image for busybox:latest
PING host.docker.internal (192.168.5.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.5.2: seq=0 ttl=254 time=0.663 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.5.2: seq=1 ttl=254 time=0.563 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.5.2: seq=2 ttl=254 time=0.461 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.5.2: seq=3 ttl=254 time=0.562 ms
^C
--- host.docker.internal ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.461/0.562/0.663 ms