Virtual box ubuntu: Internet not detected on guest(Ubuntu) in host(winXp)

Question

Iam unable to get internet connection inside guest(ubuntu) in virtual box although host(WinXP) has an internet connection. Tried with Nat: In Ubuntu it shows Wired connection connected but unable to browse sites.

Tried with Bridged adapter: In ubuntu it shows that wired connection is not connected.

Yes I use a proxy

I just appended the lines in the file.

"In the window that opens add the following lines modifying as appropriate to the file" can you explain what appropriate is. I am still not able to get connected to internet.

Please post the output of wget http://it.wikipedia.org Does it return any error messages? — ignis, Jun 26 '13 at 09:26
@ Mitch, Iam still not able to get the internet connectio after installing guest addtions @ iqnis, it displays 503 error — Ravindra, Jun 26 '13 at 12:30
Ravindra - you appear to have two accounts. Please click the contact-us link at the bottom of this page and request that your two accounts are merged. Thanks. — fossfreedom, Jun 26 '13 at 17:57

Warren Hill · Answer 1 · 2013-07-03T12:53:59.217

Step 1:

Open a terminal CTRL+ALT+T and enter

sudo -i;

You are now logged in as root so have the permissions required to save the files. Keep the terminal open. Type:

gedit /etc/environment

In the window that opens add the following lines modifying as appropriate to the file. By which I mean your proxy is probably not called myproxy.server.com:8080 use the proxy settings from your windows machine.

http_proxy=http://myproxy.server.com:8080/
https_proxy=http://myproxy.server.com:8080/
ftp_proxy=http://myproxy.server.com:8080/
no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com"
HTTP_PROXY=http://myproxy.server.com:8080/
HTTPS_PROXY=http://myproxy.server.com:8080/
FTP_PROXY=http://myproxy.server.com:8080/
NO_PROXY="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com"

Save and close gedit.

Internet should now be working (next time you reboot) but you won't get any updates to fix this in the terminal you opened before type

gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/95proxies

A new window will open add the following lines modifying as appropriate

Acquire::http::proxy "http://myproxy.server.com:8080/";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://myproxy.server.com:8080/";
Acquire::https::proxy "https://myproxy.server.com:8080/";

Save then close the terminal and reboot. All should now work as expected.

Awesome! I wish I had seen this earlier - would have saved me hours of fiddling with it... — Jan Groth, May 04 '14 at 23:12

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '13 at 13:04

I normally use Bridged. Do you have DHCP enabled in the network settings, so the VM gets an IP-address from the router or dhcp-server? Click the network icon and then Connection Information. See what IP-address the machine has. Is it on the same network as the host? If it's like 192.168.1.xx, can you ping to 192.168.1.1 (if the router has that address)? When I can't browse the internet, it normally means I use NAT for the VM, and it's IP-address is in the 10.x.x.x range. Unless your local network uses the same range, this means you have a local network for host-guest only.

Virtual box ubuntu: Internet not detected on guest(Ubuntu) in host(winXp)

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