Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#8658 closed enhancement (wontfix)
VM HTTP/S/FTP proxy
| Reported by: | Jan Goyvaerts | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | network | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.4 |
| Keywords: | proxy | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Linux |
Description
To make a VM pluggable for different environments it would be very useful to define a proxy for the VM in the settings.
The alternative is that when the VM runs behind a proxy all the installed software has to be reconfigured to cope with that.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
comment:3 by , 13 years ago
What should the proxy do? Note that VirtualBox does a very low-level of virtualization so it is not directly aware what the guest is doing. Well, the NAT network adapter knows how to handle BOOTP/DHCP requests but there is no direct handler for http/https/ftp whatever. And we don't intend to implement something like that.
comment:4 by , 13 years ago
I understand now VB is not taking protocols into account. But it would be very convenient nonetheless.
If one is to implement this for VB, that would be an extension/expansion/... then ?
comment:5 by , 13 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Keeping the number of open feature requests in mind I will close this ticket.
Why don't you just set up the VM networking to NAT?