Comment 5 for bug 1103870

Yes, you can add iptables rules for inbound connections. However, iptables can not help when you want the host and its guest VM's to be able to be accessed from the lan for the same port. For example if the host and its guest VM's are all running web servers on port 80. In that case some additional bridge work is required on top of the default (which I have not tried to figure out how to do it yet).

On my vmware ubuntu server running VM running on my Windows Laptop, the bridge is set up such that it appears on my LAN and all LAN client can access it. The VM even gets its IP address from my DHCP server.

There is always a trade off between adding detail to the serverguide and referring the reader to references for further detail.

Anyway, If I have time before the document string freeze for 13.04, maybe I can do something here.