Using VirtualBox as a PROXY SERVER (please help)

Daedalus2112 · Post by **Daedalus2112** » 14. Nov 2007, 22:58

Currently, have Windows Virtualbox running on windows (xp in both cases). In the Virtual machine, I tether my cellphone, and use it to browse to sites that are blocked at work.

What I want to do is to use this as a proxy server for my local machine (which, to reiterate, is the macine I am runnining Virtualbox on).

What I would like to do, in a perfect world, is to run VirtualBox with my cellphone tethered to it (so now I can effectively run an "open network" on the virtual machien). Then, I would like to run an application on my real machine and point it's proxy settings to the Virtualbox machine to use the virtualbox "open" network (somehow). I just need to know how to do that "somehow".

Does anyone know if/how this is possible?

Thanks!

Technologov · Post by **Technologov** » 14. Nov 2007, 23:24

I believe that it's somehow possible.

Read:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=2278

And see this topology: (from second page of the discussion)

However, I should warn you that achieving your goal may be too complex.

-Technologov

Daedalus2112 · Post by **Daedalus2112** » 15. Nov 2007, 07:04

Thanks, Technologov -

I think what you have described in that thread will work if I route ALL of the hosts' traffic to the virtual machine. Unfortunately, I only want to direct certain applications. I still need to use the "primary" network that the host runs on.