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On my Desktop with Ubuntu as the Host operating system, I use simple NAT as the networking solution. As the documentation suggests, thats the simplest way to do what I need, which is simple browsing on the Windows VM.
For any new hostnames I add to the development server, I have to add a corresponding entry on the Windows hosts file, but that's trivial.
The Desktop never moves, so its had the same dynamically assigned IP address since day 1.

Its slightly different on my laptop.

We are now dealing with a different scenario. The development is also done on a VM [Ubuntu]. Instead of VM to Host machine communication, we have to deal with VM to VM communication, and indeed Host to VM communication.
NAT could still do the job, but it is awkward enough to get port forwarding working from Host [Mac] to VM [Ubuntu]. Getting from VM to VM via the Host... tricky.