Opened 4 years ago
#20361 new defect
vboxnet0 not working on startup
| Reported by: | craigmcfly | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | network | Version: | VirtualBox 6.1.22 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
When I boot up, vboxnet0 isn't created which means other tools that depend on it (i.e. gns3) can't start up and load virtualbox.
I've set virtualbox to start on login, which solves that problem, but now I have the issue whereby the interface is created without an IP address.
I have to go into virtualbox network settings and change the vboxnet0 IP address in order for an IP address to be created.
A secondary effect of this is that the UI isn't updated until Virtualbox restarts, so if you change the vboxnet0 address to something else (i.e. 192.168.56.2/24), ifconfig shows it correctly but the UI reverts to the previous state (i.e. 192.168.56.1/24). This means that you can't then revert to that address without restarting virtualbox.
This is on macos 11.3 and 11.3.1.
