Turns out that disabling dnsmasq (as described in http://www.stgraber.org/2012/02/24/dns-in-ubuntu-12-04/ - just disable it in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf) and turning off natdnshostresolver1 in my VM got me the desired behavior back.
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