How to add alias to guest VM in mac hosts file

i am using parallels desktop 16 and have a windows 10 vm. I have a project running under visual studio on the windows vm for which I have set up a local alias. The vm is using shared networking.

Adding the local alias to the windows host file is no issue. so it looks like

10.x.x.x name.local

I am running vs code on the mac and want to access the windows hosted server via the same local alias.

The mac hosts file looks something like

10.211.x.x windows-10-prof-visual-studio.shared windows-10-prof-visual-studio name.local #prl_hostonly shared

I understand this entry gets added/removed to/from the mac hosts file revery time the VM is started and stopped, but it also seems to periodically refresh when the VM is up. So if I add name.local as an alias in the mac hosts, it gets removed again and again.

Is there any way I can set this up once and keep the same line in the mac hosts file across restarts of the VM without losing my edits?