[SGVLUG] VirtualBox networking question

[Christopher Smith]

I'm not sure I totally understand your objectives here, but would using a remote web proxy or maybe a separate VLAN for virtual box do the trick?

--Chris

On May 24, 2012, at 7:56 PM, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe there are a couple of people on this mailing list who are using VirtualBox or equiv...
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> Has anyone setup a VirtualBox guest machine so it can access the internet but can not access the host's local network?  Basically create a network sandbox.
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> For example, let's say I want to verify that an internal web server can NOT be accessed from the internet yet I want to be able to access it from my desktop and I don't have access to a machine outside my network to test from.  So using VirtualBox, I created a virtual machine running Ubuntu.  When I bring up a browser, I'm able to access a web server as if I was connecting directly from my desktop.  I want to configure this virtual machine so it has an IP address outside my local network.  
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> Any suggestions?  Tried googling but either it can't do it or I'm just not using the right keywords.
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> Claude
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