Accessing istio-service-mesh from outside - kubernetes

Question

I have installed minikube and docker to run a kubernetes cluster on a virtual machine (Ubuntu 20.04). After that, I installed istio and deployed the sample book application. So far, so good. The problem I have is that i can't access the application from outside the virtual machine (my local computer). I've done everything like the istio tutorial said, but at the point where they say it is accessible now I simply can't reach it.
The istio-ingressgateway receives an IP-address, but it's the same as the cluster IP, therefore my local computer can't find it of course as it only knows the address of the node (VM). And the minikube IP is also different to the VM IP.
istio-ingressgateway:
$ kubectl get svc -n istio-system
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
istio-egressgateway ClusterIP 10.110.61.129 <none> 80/TCP,443/TCP,15443/TCP 12m
istio-ingressgateway LoadBalancer 10.106.72.253 10.106.72.253 15021:32690/TCP,80:32155/TCP,443:30156/TCP,31400:31976/TCP,15443:31412/TCP 12m
istiod ClusterIP 10.98.94.248 <none> 15010/TCP,15012/TCP,443/TCP,15014/TCP 13m
minikube ip:
$ echo $(minikube ip)
192.168.49.2
Node addresses:
$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens33: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0c:29:95:be:75 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.164.131/24 brd 192.168.164.255 scope global dynamic ens33
valid_lft 1069sec preferred_lft 1069sec
inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe95:be75/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: docker0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default
link/ether 02:42:e2:d8:bc:fc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.17.0.1/16 brd 172.17.255.255 scope global docker0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::42:e2ff:fed8:bcfc/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
6: br-1bb350499bef: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default
link/ether 02:42:19:18:56:1b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.49.1/24 brd 192.168.49.255 scope global br-1bb350499bef
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::42:19ff:fe18:561b/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
12: vethec1def3#if11: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master br-1bb350499bef state UP group default
link/ether 56:bd:8c:fe:4c:6b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 1
inet6 fe80::54bd:8cff:fefe:4c6b/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
The address which should be working according to the istio documentation is http://192.168.49.2:32155/productpage (in my configuration), but this ends in a connection timeout.
Am I missing something?