vagrant 'hostonlyif' create not working

Question

I\'m trying to do a vagrant up on a box, and I get the following error.

INFO interface: error: There was an error executing the following command with VBo

Answer 1

Looks like this is experienced on Mac OSX Mavericks (10.9) and it's a permissions issue.

You can fix it by running:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox restart

Answer 2

I just recently updated to OS X 10.9 and had this problem with vagrant up.

If you're running VirtualBox version 4.2 or older, this should work:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox restart

However, if you're running a newer version of VirtualBox (4.3 or newer), try:

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.virtualbox.startup.plist

As noted in this question: vagrant up failed, /dev/vboxnetctl: no such file or directory

Answer 3

In my case it was also :

sudo modprobe vboxnetflt

Answer 4

try with this: sudo modprobe vboxnetadp

in my case it works

Answer 5

I've experienced a similar problem, only there were no visible errors at all: the private network simply was never created. The solution was as dumb and simple as always in such cases:

$ pacman -S net-tools

Answer 6

I didn't see the version of VirtualBox you are running in your question but for version 4.2.x the command listed by the previous answers:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox restart

should fix your issue. If you are running 4.3.x though the equivalent to this command is:

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.virtualbox.startup.plist

This will also restart the VirtualBox services and should fix your issue.

As a side note I have run into the issue where running that command will silently fail and cause VirtualBox to emit the same behavior you described. This is usually caused due to a VM still being active and can usually be resolved by suspending or destroying your vagrant instances or other VMs and rerunning the command.