Bind the Azure Emulator to all addresses of its ho

Question

Is it possible to bind the Azure Emulator to all of the addresses on the host? The default configuration binds the emulator to a single address, the loopback address - 127.0.0.1.

I can successfully change the single address that it binds to in its config file:

%Program Files%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\Emulator\devfabric\DevFC.exe.config

By changing VipPoolStartIPAddress and VipPoolEndIPAddress:

<add key="VipPoolStartIPAddress" value="192.168.1.130" />
<add key="VipPoolEndIPAddress" value="192.168.1.130" />

What I want to do, however, is bind the emulator to all of the addresses on the host. I've tried a bunch of unfruitful configurations:

• *
• *.*.*.*
• 0.0.0.0
• empty

Could this really be impossible in v2.3?

Thanks, Pete

Answer 1

There is no way to do this other than, as you mentioned in your comment, to redirect other traffic to your loopback adapter. This has been the by-design behavior since SDK 1.0.