Refer: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/133658/how-do-you-make-a-local-lan-server-in-minecraft
Five steps for Direct Connect - No Server Needed
- Open to LAN
- It will give you a cache numb er (5 numbers)
- Find your IPv4 Address using ipconfig in Command prompt (search CMD in search bar)
- combine to make something like 123.456.7.8:89072
- use direct connect and go on
Running a Minecraft Server
Using Parallels with a Windows 7 appliance. It was necessary to download a minecraft_server.exe or the jar equivalent from the minecraft.net site. Once launched, you could connect to it via localhost on the appliance, since the game was running on the same place and then other machines could connect to it. It was also necessary to have the appliance bridge the network adapter too.