VirtualBox error on MacOS Sierra

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VirtualBox error on MacOS Sierra

I am using virtualbox+vagrant for running a virtual machine for development purposes. It was running perfectly fine before I made the stupid mistake of upgrading to Sierra. Here's the trace:

nkohlis-MacBook-Pro:vagrant nkohli$ vagrant up
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: 

failed to open /dev/vboxnetctl: No such file or directory
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 tried one of the solutions suggested elsewhere:

nkohlis-MacBook-Pro:vagrant nkohli$ sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh restart
Password:
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxAutostart => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxAutostart-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxBalloonCtrl => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxBalloonCtrl-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxDD2GC.gc => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxDD2GC.gc-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxDDGC.gc => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxDDGC.gc-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxExtPackHelperApp => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxExtPackHelperApp-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxHeadless => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxHeadless-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxNetAdpCtl => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxNetAdpCtl-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxNetDHCP => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxNetDHCP-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxNetNAT => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxNetNAT-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxSVC => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxSVC-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxXPCOMIPCD => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxXPCOMIPCD-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VMMGC.gc => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VMMGC.gc-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBoxVM => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBoxVM-amd64
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/vboxwebsrv => /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/vboxwebsrv-amd64
Loading VBoxDrv.kext
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxDrv.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not loadable (reason unspecified); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
Error: Failed to load /Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxDrv.kext
Loading VBoxUSB.kext
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxUSB.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not loadable (reason unspecified); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
Error: Failed to load /Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxUSB.kext
Loading VBoxNetFlt.kext
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxNetFlt.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not loadable (reason unspecified); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
Error: Failed to load /Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxNetFlt.kext
Loading VBoxNetAdp.kext
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxNetAdp.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not loadable (reason unspecified); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
Error: Failed to load /Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxNetAdp.kext
(kernel) Kext org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp not found for unload request.
Failed to unload org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp - (libkern/kext) not found.
(kernel) Kext org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt not found for unload request.
Failed to unload org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt - (libkern/kext) not found.
(kernel) Kext org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB not found for unload request.
Failed to unload org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB - (libkern/kext) not found.
(kernel) Kext org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv not found for unload request.
Failed to unload org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv - (libkern/kext) not found.
Fatal error: VirtualBox

...to no avail.

Here's the stack trace when I ran vagrant up after reinstalling VirtualBox:

failed MSpanList_Insert 0x1e3000 0x215290116bd5 0x0
fatal error: MSpanList_Insert

runtime stack:
runtime.throw(0x19816b)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/panic.go:491 +0xad fp=0x7fff5fbff7d0 sp=0x7fff5fbff7a0
runtime.MSpanList_Insert(0x1b3988, 0x1e3000)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/mheap.c:692 +0x8f fp=0x7fff5fbff7f8 sp=0x7fff5fbff7d0
MHeap_FreeSpanLocked(0x1b0580, 0x1e3000, 0x100)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/mheap.c:583 +0x163 fp=0x7fff5fbff838 sp=0x7fff5fbff7f8
MHeap_Grow(0x1b0580, 0x8, 0x0)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/mheap.c:420 +0x1a8 fp=0x7fff5fbff878 sp=0x7fff5fbff838
MHeap_AllocSpanLocked(0x1b0580, 0x1, 0x0)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/mheap.c:298 +0x365 fp=0x7fff5fbff8b8 sp=0x7fff5fbff878
mheap_alloc(0x1b0580, 0x1, 0x12, 0x0)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/mheap.c:190 +0x121 fp=0x7fff5fbff8e0 sp=0x7fff5fbff8b8
runtime.MHeap_Alloc(0x1b0580, 0x1, 0x10000000012, 0x10d39)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/mheap.c:240 +0x66 fp=0x7fff5fbff918 sp=0x7fff5fbff8e0
MCentral_Grow(0x1b82f8, 0x0)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/mcentral.c:197 +0x8b fp=0x7fff5fbff980 sp=0x7fff5fbff918
runtime.MCentral_CacheSpan(0x1b82f8, 0x0)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/mcentral.c:85 +0x167 fp=0x7fff5fbff9b8 sp=0x7fff5fbff980
runtime.MCache_Refill(0x1df000, 0x12, 0x0)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/mcache.c:90 +0xa0 fp=0x7fff5fbff9e0 sp=0x7fff5fbff9b8
runtime.mcacheRefill_m()
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/malloc.c:368 +0x57 fp=0x7fff5fbffa00 sp=0x7fff5fbff9e0
runtime.onM(0x13d650)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:273 +0x9a fp=0x7fff5fbffa08 sp=0x7fff5fbffa00
runtime.mallocgc(0x120, 0xff4a0, 0x0, 0x0)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/malloc.go:178 +0x849 fp=0x7fff5fbffab8 sp=0x7fff5fbffa08
runtime.newobject(0xff4a0, 0x1df000)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/malloc.go:353 +0x49 fp=0x7fff5fbffae0 sp=0x7fff5fbffab8
runtime.newG(0x2520a)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/proc.go:233 +0x2a fp=0x7fff5fbffaf8 sp=0x7fff5fbffae0
allocg(0x1a33e0)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/proc.c:925 +0x1f fp=0x7fff5fbffb08 sp=0x7fff5fbffaf8
runtime.malg(0x8000, 0x1a3480)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/proc.c:2106 +0x1f fp=0x7fff5fbffb38 sp=0x7fff5fbffb08
runtime.mpreinit(0x1a3840)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/os_darwin.c:137 +0x27 fp=0x7fff5fbffb50 sp=0x7fff5fbffb38
mcommoninit(0x1a3840)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/proc.c:201 +0xc9 fp=0x7fff5fbffb78 sp=0x7fff5fbffb50
runtime.schedinit()
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/proc.c:138 +0x55 fp=0x7fff5fbffba0 sp=0x7fff5fbffb78
runtime.rt0_go(0x7fff5fbffbd8, 0x2, 0x7fff5fbffbd8, 0x0, 0x0, 0x2, 0x7fff5fbffcd0, 0x7fff5fbffcd8, 0x0, 0x7fff5fbffcdb, ...)
    /Users/mitchellh/code/3rdparty/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:95 +0x116 fp=0x7fff5fbffba8 sp=0x7fff5fbffba0

I've looked around but didn't find a similar issue reported elsewhere.

Thanks.

vagrant

virtualbox

vbox

macos-sierra

asked on Stack Overflow Sep 23, 2016 by

Chocolava • edited Sep 23, 2016 by

Chocolava

5 Answers

Upgrading Vagrant and VirtualBox fixed the issue for me. For those wondering, no you don't end up losing your existing VMs if you upgrade.

Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

answered on Stack Overflow Oct 3, 2016 by

Chocolava • edited Nov 7, 2016 by

null

some reported issues after update to macos Sierra. re-installing Virtualbox solves the issue

answered on Stack Overflow Sep 23, 2016 by

Frederic Henri

Solved. VirtualBox would always fail installation no matter how many times I tried. What worked for me was to reboot and try again, it worked! (Earlier, before trying to install, I had already upgraded fuse, vagrant, and checked to 'allow' Oracle to load its extensions from the System Preferences/Security panel. The key thing was the computer reboot before trying to install VB on High Sierra.

answered on Stack Overflow Oct 22, 2017 by

Ioannis

This issue affects anyone installing VirtualBox for the first time on a fresh macOS High Sierra 10.13.

This effectively breaks our fully automated installation process on macOS, since the user now has to perform a manual approval and then restart the installation (reboot and rerun the installation in some cases)

First, try to restart the Virtualbox with below command.

sudo "/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh" restart

If you are still facing this issue then given assign the below permission as per the screenshot.

Note: If the Allow button does not show up, run sudo kextcache -system-caches

Source: https://github.com/docksal/docksal/issues/417

answered on Stack Overflow Nov 17, 2020 by

Ashish Vitthal Dalvi

Run the following command in your terminal:

for bin in VirtualBox VirtualBoxVM VBoxNetAdpCtl VBoxNetDHCP VBoxNetNAT VBoxHeadless; do
    sudo chmod u+s "/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/${bin}"
done

It worked for me without upgrading anything.

NOTE: This will allow any user on your system to run any of these commands as root. Please be sure you understand what these commands mean before you run them.

answered on Stack Overflow Apr 11, 2018 by

Zeshan • edited Mar 15, 2019 by

chmac

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