# Unable to port forward localhost:5601 to kibana's port 5601 in Virtual machine in my laptop

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-port-forward-localhost-5601-to-kibanas-port-5601-in-virtual-machine-in-my-laptop/233720 "2020-05-21T10:19:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![jibitgeorge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jibitgeorge/32/45922_2.png) [@jibitgeorge](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jibitgeorge)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-port-forward-localhost-5601-to-kibanas-port-5601-in-virtual-machine-in-my-laptop/233720/1 "2020-05-21T10:19:02Z")

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I have a VM running on my laptop using Oracle virtual box in which I have installed kibana. It not a docker installation. And it is accessible on 127.0.0.1:5601 from my virtual machine

Then I did a port forwarding in Oracle virtual Box on port 5601 to 5601 so that I can access kibana from the host machine itself @ 127.0.01:5601.

But even after doing this I'm unable to access kibana from my host machine.

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**Author:** ![joshdover](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joshdover/32/42020_2.png) [@joshdover](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshdover)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-port-forward-localhost-5601-to-kibanas-port-5601-in-virtual-machine-in-my-laptop/233720/2 "2020-05-21T20:08:22Z")

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Hi there!

First you'll want to make sure that the Kibana server is binding to the correct host. You should set `server.host: 0.0.0.0` in your kibana.yml in order to be accessible from outside.

If that doesn't solve, it's most likely a VirtualBox configuration issue. This is a bit outside of my expertise, but I believe you may need to change the network configuration of your VM settings in VirtualBox. I believe you may need to use the "bridged" mode. [This guide](https://2buntu.com/articles/1513/accessing-your-virtualbox-guest-from-your-host-os/) also has some helpful tips for configuring networking in VirtualBox. Other than that, you may need to post on the VirtualBox forums for more assistance.

Let me know if I can be of any more help!

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**Author:** ![jibitgeorge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jibitgeorge/32/45922_2.png) [@jibitgeorge](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jibitgeorge)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-port-forward-localhost-5601-to-kibanas-port-5601-in-virtual-machine-in-my-laptop/233720/3 "2020-05-24T11:39:45Z")

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> [@joshdover](#):
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> `server.host: 0.0.0.0`

Thank you @joshdover . I was able to resolve the issue by setting `server.host: 0.0.0.0`

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-port-forward-localhost-5601-to-kibanas-port-5601-in-virtual-machine-in-my-laptop/233720/4 "2020-06-21T11:40:09Z")

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