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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Using host's http_proxy settings in a qemu VM

My VM is set up with a bridge (br0) and an emulated e1000-82545em card. The host is doing forwarding using iptables, so internet connectivity works in the normal case.

However when I'm on my office network (which uses an NTLM proxy) I've got a netctl script which starts cntlm on port 3128 of localhost and saves the address http://127.0.0.1:3128 to a temporary text file which gets sourced by zsh as well as by my runnable scripts.

In order for my guest to connect to the internet I need to set it's proxy settings to 10.0.16.1:3128 (the IP address of my host). Is there a way of doing this from the host rather than having to manually set things up in the guest? It's a windows machine if that matters (suspect it doesn't).

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