Bug 29949

Summary:	virtualbox fails to create host-only adapter
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	frederic henry-couannier <fhenryco>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri, guillaume.royer
Version:	8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	virtualbox 6.1.32-1.mga8	CVE:
Status comment:

Description frederic henry-couannier 2022-01-26 18:28:55 CET

Description of problem:
 in virtualbox GUI (not opened in sudo mode) ==> file ==> manage host network ==> Create : 
fails with message

VBoxNetAdpCtl: Error while adding new interface: failed to open /dev/vboxnetctl: Permission denied

reproducible at any time

discussed also in MLO forum https://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-29613.php#m296768

because of this error this docker-machine command will also fail :

docker-machine create --driver virtualbox myvm1

Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2022-01-26 20:56:04 CET

Thank you for reporting

Confirming for virtualbox 6.1.32-1.mga8 now pushed to updates.

Assigning to maintainer

Assignee: bugsquad => tmb
CC: (none) => fri
Source RPM: virtualbox 6.1.30-1.mga8 => virtualbox 6.1.32-1.mga8

Comment 2 frederic henry-couannier 2022-02-04 14:54:48 CET

hello, i can see there have been virtualbox updates but the problem is still there...so this command fails :
docker-machine create --driver virtualbox myvm1

Btw , another unrelated bug (but with very low criticity) is that in the MageiaControlCenter, the tool to activate/deactivate services, works correctly except the service status does not change to started or stopped in the window unless one closes the window by clicking ok and than reopen it.

Comment 3 Guillaume Royer 2022-03-28 14:46:18 CEST

Hello,

I have same problem here:

In virtualbox GUI (not opened in sudo mode) ==> file ==> manage host network ==> Create : 
fails with message

VBoxNetAdpCtl: Error while adding new interface: failed to open /dev/vboxnetctl: Permission denied

https://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-29734.php#m298794

If I open it in sudo mode it works.

CC: (none) => guillaume.royer

Comment 4 Guillaume Royer 2022-03-30 13:53:08 CEST

After some research, it turns out that downgrading VBox to virtualbox-6.1.26 works. So there is a problem with version 6.1.32-1.

Comment 5 Thomas Backlund 2022-03-30 14:40:13 CEST

virtualbox 6.1.28 changelog:
Network: More administrative control over host-only network ranges to prevent trouble due to misconfiguration, see user manual. Check updated documentation or your VMs may stop working!

Comment 6 Morgan Leijström 2022-04-20 08:50:34 CEST

Closing as invalid, as it seem to be caused by improved security, per Comment 5.

If there is more to it, please reopen.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID