Windows 7 - connect virtual pc dhcp

I have an application running on my Win7/64 laptop which requires accessing a web service on a Virtual PC hosted on this same machine. All is well when I have a network connection (from which the Virtual PC get's it's IP).  But I need to run this in a hotel conference room where I cannot be certain I'll have a network.

How can I configure a Virtual PC such that I can access it's web server it even when the host has no external network connection?

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