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The configuration would work like this: I have a VM (guest OS shouldn't matter), running in VMWare Workstation on an MS-Windows OS host. The host can access a proxy server (a SOCKS or HTTP proxy) to connect to the internet if it needs to.
Can I configure the VMWare VM container to use the proxy server for all its internet and network access, such that the guest OS has no idea it's going through a proxy? It simply sees the internet directly.
Thus have VMWare do the proxy handling, instead of the host OS or the guest OS.
Best Answer
One way of doing this might be creating one VM that acts as a router which then does the transparent proxy for you using something like redsocks. Then configure your other VMs to use this one as their default gateway.
There is a procedure on how to configure a server as a transparent socks proxy available at: http://przemoc.net/tips/linux#making_socks_proxy_transparent
And some general information about redsocks here: http://darkk.net.ru/redsocks/