VirtualBox – and a linux experiment
Posted by Phil on April 16, 2008 under PC | 
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So a few weeks (or months) ago I read a post on a site that said how to run windows in a linux environment similar to how parallels works on OS X. I went to the website and found that there was a windows binary available for download and that you can make a Virtual Machine out of just about anything. So I made one of ubuntu 7.10 (making sure to disable the “network” portion before the install so as not to get stuck in an infinite loop when installing the distro). Everything went smoothly and soon enough I was booted fully into a very fast running virtual linux installation. That’s when I opened firefox and found out that we have a firewall that hates us. So now that you’ve done the same thing and want to figure out how to make things work, lets start by setting up the system proxy settings.
- In Gnome (ubuntu 7.10 default interface) click on ‘System’ -> ‘Preferences’ -> ‘Network Proxy’.
- Click on the “Manual proxy configuration” radio button.
- For ‘HTTP proxy:’ enter “proxy3.wherewework.com”
- For Port use 3128.
- Click on the “Details” button
- Check “Use authentication”
- Enter DOMAIN/username
- Enter your password
- Click the “Close” button
- Click the “Close” button again
- Crack open fireyfox and make sure that the proxy pop up window has “domain\username” then your password
- Enjoy the surf
It is fairly important to note which way the slashes are going in each step of the process. If it still doesn’t work, your NAT settings may need to be tweaked… I did end up cloning my hosts MAC address, but I’m not certain that will make it work.