I'm not good at this .. but won't windows default to ipv6 if there is no 
host entry? Or some suchlike?

Proper fix I believe is to change sockets to use ipv6. I now know 
AF_INET (ipv4) works ..

On 26/10/17 11:24 pm, Larry DiGiovanni wrote:
> Bernie van't Hof wrote:
> 
>> localhost in hosts file?
> 
> Not sure why this would matter, but localhost works for all other 
> services on the machine.  Can't verify for sure at the moment, however...
> 
> In order to get the VirtualBox Linux client to try I had to modify the 
> listen from loopback to actual IP (v4).  Socket was established, but the 
> same error occurred.  I'd dropped Windows Firewall temporarily just to 
> be sure.
> 
> -- 
> Larry DiGiovanni
>