When I try to launch VM in Oracle VirtualBox on Windows 10 it says "Cannot access the kernel driver". I tried complete reinstall (remove everything and install), repair installation (repair in the installer) and installing 2 drivers manually (VBoxUSBMon and VBoxDrv). Nothing worked. I'm using VirtualBox 4.3.12 because I was not able to launch newer version on Windows 10 for some reason.
The problem is with the installer. The new location of the driver is at C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\vboxdrv\VBoxDrv.sys. However the installer points to the old driver location of C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxDrv.sys.
To fix the problem you need to point the registry value to the new location. Step to do that:
Close VirtualBox
Open regedit.exe from the Start Menu
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\currentcontrolset\services\vboxdrv
Double click the name ImagePath
Change the value from \??\C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxDrv.sys to \??\C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\vboxdrv\VBoxDrv.sys
Restart VirtualBox
I found this answer in the VirtualBox Forum
I went to Control Panel > Programs and Feature (or right click Windows logo) then selected Oracle VM VirtualBox(4.3.12) and then hit repair at the top.
I restarted then it worked!!
Im running windows 10.0 Home
Downgrade to VirtualBox 4.3.10.
This worked fine for me after trying all that is mentioned above.
Download an old copy of your Virtualbox installer (make sure it's the
same version!)
Run the installer
Select "Repair"
Reboot
Uninstall the old version
Install the new version
Hope it helps!
I have VirtualBox 4.3.14 and I got the "Cannot access the kernel driver" . I did the traditional repair ,reboot and didn't solve a thing.
After a manual installation of these drivers everything works again.
Go to
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\USB\filter
Select VBoxUSBMon.inf and click the right mouse button. Then pick Install.
Go to
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\vboxdrv
Select VBoxDrv.inf and click the right mouse button. Then pick install.
VirtualBox should now work again as expected.
I hope this helps ! :D
Just faced this problem after updating to virtual box 6.1.2 version in windows.
The answer by AllanT worked for me, except that it required one more step:
Execute this from the command line as admin: sc.exe start vboxdrv
(restarting the vbox service was not enough).
Note: I would've added this as a comment to AllanT's post but I still don't have enough rep!
You can open the CMD as admin and locate the folder that you have the Oracle Virtual Box in and run each of the the following with your Virtual Machine's name, if you are using an iso file or a vmdk:
cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"
VBoxManage.exe modifyvm "Your VM Name" --cpuidset 00000001 000106e5 00100800 0098e3fd bfebfbff
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct" "iMac11,3"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion" "1.0"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardProduct" "Iloveapple"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey" "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC" 1
Make sure to replace "Your VM Name" with "Your actual VM name".
For more on the latest OS X check an example here: https://techsprobe.com/6-step-install-macos-catalina-on-virtualbox-on-windows-pc/
Just wanted to add, I had this problem on Windows 10. None of the fixes I found worked. Turned out it was due to Trusteer Endpoint Protection, which once uninstalled fixed this perfectly.
This is because VirtualBox gets confused about some of their files and settings. When i updated my VirtualBox to 6.0.14 from 6.0.10 then i got this error.
In my case i just deleted C>Username>Program Files>Oracle>VirtualBox folder. And after that i uninstalled VirtualBox from my machine.
After these steps i did a simple fresh install of VirtualBox on my machine and this solves my issue. Hope you also got some help.
Have a nice day random man and great future..
I faced the same issue. I am not sure which file was missing. Uninstall and install worked for me :)
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Ok so I want to get a virtual machine with Windows so I can download applications only on Windows (Not on OSX (I'm on Big Sur 11.2.3 by the way)), so I downloaded VirtualBox, then downloaded the Windows thing which apparently I have to (as seen in one of the pics) (you can tell I have hardly any experience with vms), then I created a new vm in the VirtualBox app, and left all the default settings except for the type of hard drive (which is also in one of the pictures), then I clicked Start and it asked me to add a 'virtual optical disk file', so I clicked on the folder button then clicked add in the top left, and it gave me this error code:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine w10.
The VM session was aborted.
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: SessionMachine
Interface: ISession {c0447716-ff5a-4795-b57a-ecd5fffa18a4}
as you can also see in one of the pictures below. Also, when I leave the screen for a couple of minutes right before I click on the previously mentioned add button, this appears:
but I tried just leaving it to load, and nothing happened. I have tried uninstalling using the uninstall tool twice, rebooting my Mac, etc etc, and yes I have allowed everything I need to in the Security settings. I'm not installing it on a moderator account, but the Windows 10 virtual optical disk file is in Documents which the account I'm on has read and write access to, and obviously the actual VM is in applications.
Thanks so much!
Here's the previously mentioned image of the one changed setting:
And here's the pic of the Win10 64-bit I had to install:
thanks everyone!
VirtualBox Version: 6.1.22 r144080 (Qt5.6.3)
Host Operating System: MacOS BigSur
I came across exactly same issue, where clicking on add to choose image was crashing the dialog. This issue persists in the latest version of Virtual Box for Mac.
I could figure out couple of ways to avoid clicking on Add button to choose image.
First Option:
Steps:
Click on Settings to open settings window for your VM.
Choose Storage
Select Empty disc and choose Disk image by clicking small disc icon in the Attributes section. Please follow the image to have visual instructions.
Second Option:
Steps:
Click on VM's Normal start
Once you get the option to choose image, simply cancel the dialog.
Now click on the small disc icon in the bottom of VM's dialog to choose the image.
Hope this helps. Feel free to comment if you find this post useful.
I had the same message because of permissions at directories where the hard disks were stored in. So, just execute VirtualBox 'As Administrator' and all run well.
I was getting the same error on Ubuntu 22.04 machine while trying to start an existing or a new VM-
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine NuacareRocky.
The VM session was aborted.
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: SessionMachine
Interface: ISession {c0447716-ff5a-4795-b57a-ecd5fffa18a4}
I tried a few things as suggested on youtube, but nothing worked. finally, I just upgraded the extension and it worked.
WSL2 stopped working suddenly. If I do a new installation of linux distros. Then it throws the following error, when I click launch button for the linux distro from play store:
Installing, this may take a few minutes...
WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80070003
Error: 0x80070003 The system cannot find the path specified.
the wsl --help command works properly. All other wsl command hangs or throws error as shown below
like wsl -l command throws this error
The system cannot find the path specified.
I had the same thing happening to me after I moved the directory of my distro.
You have to unregister the distro from WSL;
wslconfig /u Ubuntu-20.04
and then just execute the installed exe and install the whole distro to WSL again.
I had to reinstall the windows to fix the issue. Something got corrupted in the OS. However, before reinstalling the OS as I had lot of work stored in the WSL2, I took the backup of the entire WSL2 image, the big .vhdx file. This file is the Virtual Hard Disk of WSL2 Linux. The files inside cannot be directly explored from Windows at the moment.
If one has not moved the file anywhere else, it is stored here: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\<PackageFamilyName>\LocalState\ext4.vhdx
Before reinstalling the OS, after taking the backup, I wanted to test if this backup runs fine on new install of WSL2. For that, I tested it on another machine, by installing the same Ubuntu WSL2 distro and replacing the .vhdx file created with the backup file. It ran fine.
So, it felt safe to do entire OS reinstall and then reinstalling WSL2 Ubuntu and finally replacing the .vhdx file with the old backup .vhdx file. So, I did loose some time. But, my data and all the applications/programs on WSL2 were intact.
I know this is old but I had the same problem after deleting a driver associated with Hyper V and fixed it by uninstalling the virtual machine platform and Windows Hypervisor along with WSL, rebooted, reinstalled all 3 and then I could install Ubuntu again
This is my first answer on stack overflow and English is not my first language.
So, I will answer this question in images. My solution would not delete the date in any existing installed Linux distribution, at least for me.
Hope you can solve this problem successfully.
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"Enable" Virtualization from your bios settings.
Settings may differ from bios to bios (search for your machine options)
Problem:
When I launched Ubuntu 20.04, it pops up: "Press any key to continue...", and then if I press any key, it exits immediately. This prevents me from using (typing any command) in Ubuntu WSL. (It occurred suddenly today. For the last couple of days it has been working properly.)
Screenshot: Press any key to continue pops up after startup
Attempts Tried:
LxssManager service is running. But LxssManagerUser and LxssManagerUser_60d78 are stopped. Manually starting the two services doesn't help as they automatically stop themselves right afterwards.
Hyper-V service is set to auto. Virtualization mode is enabled (task manager -> performance -> CPU)
Trying to re-run the update from here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-kernel, but it shows WSL not installed (which is weird since I have been using it for a long time before)
Environment:
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Family, Insider Preview
Version: 10.0.20152 Version 20152
System Type: x64 based
I'd accidentally mounted the WSL virtual disk image by double-clicking it in explorer, and it remained mounted to my machine even though it reported an error that made having it mounted useless. Unmounting the vdisk from Disk Management resolved the issue for me.
From https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4177#issuecomment-597736482
There is a conflict between wsl.exe and Proxifier.
Developers of Proxifier gave a solution.
Thanks for the info.
We have reproduced this issue. Apparently, wsl.exe displays this error
if Winsock LSP DLL gets loaded into its process.
The easiest solution is to use WSCSetApplicationCategory WinAPI call
for wsl.exe to prevent this. Under the hood the call creates an entry
for wsl.exe at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\AppId_Catalog
This tells Windows not to load LSP DLLs into wsl.exe process.
We have a tool that can make this call:
www.proxifier.com/tmp/Test20200228/NoLsp.exe
Please just run as admin with the full path to wsl.exe as the
parameter: NoLsp.exe c:\windows\system32\wsl.exe
This has fixed the problem in my case.
Please let me know how it works for you.
And it works well for me!
This worked magic! Go to the Windows Command Prompt and run the following command:
netsh winsock reset
Then Restart your computer. NB: Don't Shutdown since it did not work for me. Instead, Restart!
More answers can be found here.
I solved by downloading the https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msimsi and excuting it.
see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-kernel
I went into the bios and had to enable virtualization from there
if you got this error:
An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.
there is something wrong with windows sockets and try this command in cmd administrator mode to reset windows sockets.
1. netsh winsock reset catalog
2. netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log
3. netsh int ipv6 reset reset.log
4. Restart the computer.
Maybe not relevant for TO but I had the same issue and just had to run in Windows Terminal:
wsl --shutdown
After that Ubuntu worked again.
powershell => type "wsl --shutdown" => error message
ctrl-alt-del => services => HvHost => right button => restart (think to stop all hyperv virtual machines before ?)
powershell => type "wsl" => OK
restart hyperv virtual machines
Suddenly, i lost all Geny motion emulators (maybe after upgrading to Geny motion 2.2, not sure) and when ever i download a new virtual machine or emulator i get the "failed to import OVA" error and i can't use the virtual machines i downloaded at all in Geny motion, however they work in virtual box!
and i have cleared the cache and deleted old OVAs and re-downloaded other emulators again and again, but it's no use!
any clue what's going on?
is there a way to re-import emulators i already downloaded by Geny motion to Geny motion again instead of keeping downloading new emulators and getting the same error?
I solved the problem for myself. In my case, I had the same problem after defragmenting my computer. Deleting the ova and deploying files did not work (neither did reinstalling help). Solved it by clearing the cache in the app itself:
Settings>Misc>Cache Usage>Clear Cache
Try to see if that helps. If it doesn't then I can't help.
So I upgraded to the latest version of Genymotion 2.6.0. Tried to install the new Virtual Devices and I got the same error.
I tried to clear the cache as suggested above but it didn't help instead it removed the downloaded .ova file of the device and I had to download again.
I checked for update on VirtualBox and it shows that you're on the latest build. I checked the version and it showed 4.2.x.
Checked the latest version on the site and damn... It was version 5.0 available on the website.
Upgraded the VirtualBox to the latest 5.0 and here you go... Everything was back in place and my Genymotion Virtual Device was imported and is running fine.
So do check the versions of VirtualBox and see if it is the latest available on the website.
Deleting the Genymotion cached .ova file, deleting the corrupted deployed image, redownloading the image, and reinstalling it addressed the issue for me.
Note that the deployed images are under: ~/.Genymobile/Genymotion/deployed
the cached ova files are under: ~/.Genymobile/Genymotion/ova
this link : Unable to create Genymotion Virtual Device
Update :
Settings>Misc>Cache Usage>Clear Cache
Try to upgrade VirtualBox to the latest release, this solved the problem for me.
UPDATE
Some VirtualBox version are not compatibles with genymotion: review FAQ Genymotions in https://www.genymotion.com/help/desktop/faq/#compatible-virtualbox-versions
If you see the log file of Genimotions you'll find this:
VBoxManage.exe: error: 'Linux_64' is not a valid Guest OS type
The problem is the version of Virtual Box, I thought I had the last version (4.2) because virtual box said me that it was the lastest version, but it wasn't true: The last version actually is 5.0.20
I've installed the last version (5.0.20), and ova is ok
If you're using Windows:
The folder left after uninstallation is located at:
C:\Users\Your_User_Name\AppData\Local\Genymobile\Genymotion\
Before proceeding, in the OVA folder, save the ova files in there if you do not want to redownload the images all over again.
Clear the Genymotion cache, and then uninstall Genymotion (and Oracle VBOX if needed)
Remove the whole Genymotion folder in the above path
Reinstall genymotion and VirtualBox
Copy back the ova files into the ova folder.
Re-add the virtual device accordingly (the ova files name should be identifiable easily enough)
Genymotion will then verify the integrity of the stuffs and should now works fine.
I just Run Genymotion with Administrator right (run as Administrator)! It work perfect!
I had the same issue and also tried deleting the Genymotion cached .ova file and old images but to no avail.
To get my Genymotion working again in my environment I completely uninstalled VirtualBox and Genymotion using the TrashMe app to ensure no trace was left on my system. You can achieve the same result with the free app App Cleaner.
I then completely deleted the ~/.Genymobile directory as this seems to get left behind when deleting/uninstalling Genymotion. I think this is the only thing I did differently this time.
I then re-downloaded the latest versions of VirtualBox and Genymotion and installed them in that order. (Versions at time of writing: VB - 4.3.13 r93733 / GM - 2.2.2)
I then launched Genymotion, connected to my account, added a new device and I am now back up and running.
Hopefully that helps..
I encountered this error when my hard drive was almost full. It looked like it had enough space for the emulator, but Genymotion still failed with failed to import eva
Solved by freeing up a couple Gigs on disk.
Updating VirtualBox to the latest version, Worked for me
I deleted all the virtual devices and cleared Cache. After that I added the device again. Worked for me.
I had the same problem, I fixed it with uninstalling, reinstalling and running Gennymotion with Admin rights. Make sure you not upgrade Oracle VM and use the one you installed with Genymotion. Also at installing Genymotion make sure you reinstall VM too. It should work, I lost my devices too and this method only solve the OVA problem. If you run the virtual device and get an error, reboot computer, if you didn't do after installing Oracle VM. Hope it helped.
it turns for me I restored the system from the backup
Click geny settings->virtualbox tab, have to correct the folder to keep the VM
I had deleted /Users//.Genymobile/ directory and Genimotion started work fine
make sure you choose the correct android sdk
in Linux
just delete
home/user/.config/Genymobile/Genymotion.conf
and it's work
I downloaded ova that match with version i want (example android 5)
http://fatihcamuz.com/2015/04/download-links-of-genymotion-ova/
then add ova file to genymotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MiYhVUv4KE
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I am running vagrant 1.4 and virtual box 4.3 on fedora 17 machine. When I do "vagrant up", I get this error:
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
[default] Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
[default] Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.
Command: ["hostonlyif", "create"]
Stderr: 0%...
Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE
VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the host-only adapter
VBoxManage: error: VBoxNetAdpCtl: Error while adding new interface: VBoxNetAdpCtl: ioctl failed for /dev/vboxnetctl: Inappropriate ioctl for devic
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component HostNetworkInterface, interface IHostNetworkInterface
VBoxManage: error: Context: "int handleCreate(HandlerArg*, int, int*)" at line 66 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp
I had the same problem today. The reason was that I had another VM running in VirtualBox.
Solution:
Open VirtualBox and shut down every VM running
Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy Then hit the "Allow" button to let Oracle (VirtualBox) load.
Restart VirtualBox
sudo "/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh" restart
You should now be able to run vagrant up or vagrant reload and have your new host configured.
As mentioned in this answer, recent versions of macOS can block VirtualBox.
Solution:
Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy Then hit the "Allow" button to let Oracle (VirtualBox) load.
(thanks to #pazhyn, #lsimonetti & #dave-beauchesne for clarifications)
For Mac OS X 10.9.3 and Vagrant 1.6.3 and VirtualBox 4.3.6 this problem was fixed with restarting the VirtualBox
sudo "/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh" restart
TL;DR MacOS is probably blocking VirtualBox. Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy Then hit the "Allow".
Solution:
Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy Then hit the "Allow" button to let Oracle (VirtualBox) load.
MacOS by default can block kexts from loading. You must click the "allow" button before executing the VirtualBoxStartup.sh script.
Then run:
sudo "/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh" restart like the answer above.
(This article provides more clarity to MacOS kernel extension loading)
This issue appears to be fixed by installing the latest version of Virtual Box.
I had this issue after upgrading to OS X El Captian. Upgrading to the latest version of VB solved the issue for me. Virtual box will give you the latest link if you go to the virtualbox menu at the top of your screen and clicking check for updates.
Got the error in Mac after the update to Mojave. Probably you have an older version of virtual box.
Update to a recent version of virtualbox. (5.2 at the time of wrting this post)
Edit: adding #lsimonetti's comment.
In addition to that upgrade to Virtualbox 5.2, you need Vagrant >= 2.0.1
If you are on Linux, simply run: sudo vboxreload
I'm running Oracle VM Virtualbox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
The solution that worked was to reinstall virtualbox as mentioned here:
sudo apt remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.0 virtualbox-4.*
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
I couldn't find my VirtualBox installation folder, as such could not issue the command:
$sudo /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox restart
I had to reinstall Virtual Box on my machine.
Here's the downloads page: Downloads Page
Then vagrant up worked for me after.
If after performing what is said by #totophe and on macOS it still doesn't work, just restart your mac. Then open the terminal and vagrant up.
This usually happens after each macOS update.
I had similar problem upgrading to OSX Monterey.
Solution:
Install VirtualBox Extension (download)
Accept VirtualBox Security & Privacy/Privacy/Input Monitoring
VirtualBox can also have and lose permissions for Accessibility, check that as well
In my case, I was able to solve this issue by reinstalling virtual box. I was trying to use laravel's homestead and was having this error. Reinstalling helps creating the directories that are needed for virtual box again. Took me an hour to figure out.
I'm running Debian 8 (Jessie), Vagrant 1.6.5 and Virtual Box 4.3.x with the same problem.
For me it got fixed executing:
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Tried multiple solutions but the below sequence works for me.
Virtual Box: 5.2.34
Vagrant: 2.2.5
Mac OSX: 10.14.6
First Allow access to oracle inc:
Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy Then hit the "Allow" button to let Oracle (VirtualBox) load.
Then restart VBox by this command:
sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh restart
Now try Vagrant up again.
I've just had the same problem after upgrading to mac os Big Sur
Linus solution worked for me
Grant permission to VirtualBox under System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General (this request is new to macOS High Sierra)
Open Terminal and run: sudo "/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh" restart
https://stackoverflow.com/a/47652517/6146535
$sudo /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox restart
Worked great for me on Mac. This normally happens when I shut down my computer without running
$vagrant suspend
I am using ubuntu 14.04. I have genymotion installed on virtualbox. Every time I start genymotion I had no problem, but suddenly one time it said unable to load virtualbox engine and it didn't open. I went through the log file and found out it could not create a new host only network because it has already created all possible host only networks. And the problem is that it cannot allocate memory for a new network.
Fix: go to your virtual box File --> Preferences --> Network
Click the host-only tab and just delete some of the host-only networks so that you will get some memory freed and next time, a new network can be created easily.
Deletion fixed my problem.
In my case I had to do the following to solve this error for me:
totophe's answer in combination with (re)installing the latest VM-version (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) (Thanks to jacobappleton & user1718159)
Steps:
First (re)install latest VirtualBox;
Run sudo "/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh" restart in terminal (not sure if this is needed in order to get the system preferences show up the allow/disallow option);
Allow in Security & Privacy
Restart your machine
Run sudo "/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh" restart again.
Ready to run vagrant up again.
I fixed this error by installing VirtualBox 4.2 instead of 4.3. I think the latest version of vagrant and VB 4.3 are incompatible on a fedora system.
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
VirtualBox-5.0
I came across this tread while searching Google for...
VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the host-only adapter
I was using VirtualBox-5.0 to test some virtual machines created with Vagrant and setting private networks in my Vagrantfile
web.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.10.2"
When evoking the command $ vagrant up I would get the above mentioned error along with /dev/vboxnetcrl does not exist.
It seems that my version of VirtualBox did not have the proper kernel module compiled for my version of Linux and the device, /dev/vboxnetcrl, does not get created.
Since I wanted to test virtual machine and not troubleshoot VirtualBox, my work around (not a solution) was to:
# yum remove VirtualBox-5.0
# yum install VirtualBox-4.3
After that I was able to create the virtual machines with specified host-adapters. And of course, under VirtualBox-4.3, /dev/vboxnetcrl was there.
Now on to testing my VMs. And when I have time, I'll see if I can get it working under VirtualBox 5.0
If you are on Linux:
sudo service virtualbox restart
Windows 10 Pro
VirtualBox 5.2.12
In my case I had to edit the Host Only Ethernet Adapter in the VirtualBox GUI. Click Global Tools -> Host Network Manager -> Select the ethernet adapter, then click Properties. Mine was set to configure automatically, and the IP address it was trying to use was different than what I was trying to use with drupal-vm and vagrant. I just had to change that to manual and correct the IP address. I hope this helps someone else.
I had the same problem just now and it was solved by simply reinstalling to the latest version of VirtualBox.
For those on Mac OS High Sierra - the installation might fail at first but you need to go to System Preferences > Security & Policy and click on the "Allow" button to allow Oracle installing the software.
For macOS Mojave, this solution worked:
sudo "/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh" restart
I faced this issue on mac.
I did the following
Go to:
Launcher->Virtualbox
Click the icon to open Virtualbox
Start Virtualbox with the button that pops up once Virtualbox starts. Wait till the terminal window gives you the prompt,
docker#boot2docker
Then try to open docker. Hope it works!
If you are sure you have allow Oracle from system preference and the error still persist. It is highly possible you have not started VirtualBox. Ensure it is running and run vagrant up again.
Finally worked for me by following Given link.
https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/drupal-vm-failed-create-host-only-adapter/
Tried on : 06 Mar, 2021
Mac OS = 11.2.2 (20D80)
Oracle Virtual Box = Version 6.1.18 r142142 (Qt5.6.3)
~ ➤ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox Manager1
Running pre-create checks...
Creating machine...
(Manager1) Copying /Users/speedoo/.docker/machine/cache/boot2docker.iso to /Users/speedoo/.docker/machine/machines/Manager1/boot2docker.iso...
(Manager1) Creating VirtualBox VM...
(Manager1) Creating SSH key...
(Manager1) Starting the VM...
(Manager1) Check network to re-create if needed...
(Manager1) Found a new host-only adapter: "vboxnet0"
(Manager1) Waiting for an IP...
Waiting for machine to be running, this may take a few minutes...
Detecting operating system of created instance...
Waiting for SSH to be available...
Detecting the provisioner...
Provisioning with boot2docker...
Copying certs to the local machine directory...
Copying certs to the remote machine...
Setting Docker configuration on the remote daemon...
Checking connection to Docker...
Docker is up and running!
To see how to connect your Docker Client to the Docker Engine running on this virtual machine, run: docker-machine env Manager1
~ ➤
~ ➤
~ ➤ docker-machine ls
NAME ACTIVE DRIVER STATE URL SWARM DOCKER ERRORS
Manager1 - virtualbox Running tcp://192.168.99.100:2376 v19.03.12
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What helped me on Opensuse 42.1 is to install VirtualBox and Vagrant from the official RPMs instead of from Opensuse repositories.
I encountered this problem on Windows 8.1, VirtualBox 5.1.18 and Vagrant 1.9.3.
Deleting the VirtualBox Hosts-only Ethernet Adapter from VirtualBox Preferences (Network --> Hosts-only networks) fixed this for me, and vagrant up could continue and start the VM.
I had the same problem while following a tutorial on setting up Laravel Homestead for Windows 10. The tutorial provides an example IP address 192.168.10.10 to use for the server. The problem with their example IP is that if you already have a VirtualBox Host-Only Adapter set up, the IP you use for your vagrant server must have the same first three parts of the IP address of your current adapter.
You can check what your current Virtualbox Host-Only Adapter IP address is by running ipconfig (windows) ifconfig (mac/linux) and looking for VirtualBox Host-Only Adapter's IPv4 address. 192.168.56.1 was mine. Usually if the host IP is 192.168.56.1 then the guest IP will be 192.168.56.101 so instead of using the example IP I used 192.168.56.102. Any IP that is within 192.168.56.* that is not already taken should work.
After this homestead up worked perfectly for me.
TL;DR - If your current VirtualBox Host-Only Adapter IP is 192.168.56.1, make your Vagrant server IP 192.168.56.102.