`VBoxManage` error on VirtualBox when running Vagrant after MacOS Monteray update

Question

Now, I've seen a few questions regarding my issue on various Stack websites and also on GitHub. However, after trying everything they have recommended, my environment still doesn't work, which is why I'm opening a new question.

Prior upgrading to Monteray, vagrant up would run successfully. But, ever since the upgrade, I see the following error message on:

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: failed to open /dev/vboxnetctl: No such file or directory
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component HostNetworkInterfaceWrap, interface IHostNetworkInterface
VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleCreate(HandlerArg *)" at line 95 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp

Details:

Vagrant version 2.2.19

VirtualBox version 6.1

What I've tried:

1. Complete uninstalls and re-installs of Vagrant and VirtualBox. Permissions have also be granted in Security and Privacy.
2. I've tried to force gui rather than headless by setting v.gui = true in my Vagrantfile as suggested here and here.
3. I've tried installing older versions of VirtualBox to see if it solved the issue.
4. Tried installing the VirtualBox extension, restarted my Mac and ran vagrant up, but no change. See accepted answer here for my approach.

I've ran out of avenues to try. Wondering if anyone had any alternative approaches as I'm stumped.

Selenodont

exact issue, exact attempts – Windermere

updating virtualbox fixed the issue, apparently this happens whenever mac os releases a major update, virtualbox needs a bit of time to patch, current virtualbox version 6.1.30 (download it manually, auto update doesn't work for some reason) Good luck – Windermere

Hi @UXLabs - Glad to hear it's working for you. I've downloaded the latest VirtualBox version (6.1.3 for MacOS) and when running vagrant up, I now see no errors. However, none of my sites load. When going to http://vvv.test/, it doesn't load either. Is it the same for you? – Selenodont

Hello @Selenodont just saw this, here everything went back to normal as soon as downloaded the update, i hope you worked it out, it sounds like /etc/hosts issue – Windermere

Answer 1

This usually happens if you update VirtualBox and don't restart your machine. VirtualBox uses kernel extensions, and in v7+ it uses another feature for network adapters. These requires a hard reboot.

So restart your Mac, and if that does not work, reinstall VirtualBox then restart it again. If that fails, completely remove VirtualBox, restart, install the newest version, restart, then try to provision.

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BTW I'm the VVV project lead, usually when we see these issues we fix them, this isn't something you should need to fix yourself. But if you use stack overflow to report bugs we don't see it. Either raise a GitHub issue or ask in the VVV slack. We could have gotten to this in minutes/hours rather than years.

https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV/issues/new/choose https://varyingvagrantvagrants.org/docs/en-US/slack/

Lymn