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The host OS is Windows, Guest OS is Linux running on VirtualBox. I setup Network and can access the Guest OS from the Host by IP address. Let's say this is IP 192.168.22.10. This part makes sense to me.

Now I modified the Guest OS /etc/hosts file and assigned a name to the guest, say guestvm, which is mapped to the IP address of the Guest OS so 192.168.22.10 => guestvm. Now in the Guest OS, I can access the guest machine by localhost, or by guestvm. All Good so far,

When I ping guestvm from the Host OS (Windows), It takes a bit, but then somehow Windows does find guestvm.local is equivalent to 192.168.22.10 and is able to access the Guest OS. I did not make any IP changes on the Host, Windows, side at all. So how can The host map guestvm to ip 192.168.22.10?

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Through a mechanism such as mDNS.

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