Setting ethernet proxy settings without WiFi I'm playing around with the latest android-x86 (4.4) in virtualbox. The setup can connect to the external network only through a NAT ethernet device that is emulated by virtual box. This gets autoconfigured just fine and i can ping computers on my LAN.

If I export http_proxy=&lt;host&gt;:&lt;port&gt; in a terminal, I can wget web pages. However I am unable to set the proxy settings globally for all apps.

The proxy settings are displayed only after a wifi network is connected, and I lack any wifi devices in the virtual machine.

I have tried the following in the root terminal accesible from alt+f1:

setprop global_http_proxy_host &lt;host&gt;
setprop global_http_proxy_port &lt;port&gt;
setprop net.gprs.http-proxy http://&lt;host&gt;:&lt;port&gt;


But this fails to have any effect. Even new terminals lack the env variable for the proxy. These settings appear to be set when I check it by executing getprop

I found this link to the fragment that seems to display the proxys selector for the wifi.

Is there any way that I can manually set all the settings that are affected by this fragment?
This solution worked for me.

Just enter the following command in a terminal (change PROXYIP:PROXYPORT ) 

iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to PROXYIP:PROXYPORT


Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/XfIRyHQ5nmk

I had too tried all your commands without success. I was stuck behind a proxy trying to setup Android x86 with a VirtualBox VM which only had eth0. I was stuck at the activation screen not resolving the needed webpages to continue into the OS. After running the above command, I was able to reach the web and continue. Results may vary per proxy environment.

Edit: This didn't get me too far, but it got me somewhere. The same trick didn't work for 443.