Create hostonlyif and always get 2 interfaces with the same name

[Alps]

After upgrading to 4.2.12(no exactly know the accuate version number) or later vesion, I could't use hostonlyif anymore in my virtual machine any more. I found that when I tried to create 1 hostonlyif, and I would get 2 interfaces with the same name. However, I could remove the 2 interfaces by only one command. I tried to reinstall virtualbox but failed to get through this. My OS is Windows 8 X64. Below is the command line inputs and outputs:

c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe list -l hostonlyifs

c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe hostonlyif create 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% Interface 'VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' was successfully created

c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe list -l hostonlyifs Name: VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter GUID: 5d99a14e-ac2e-4828-9870-19f6bee9ed84 DHCP: Disabled IPAddress: 192.168.24.1 NetworkMask: 255.255.255.0 IPV6Address: fe80:0000:0000:0000:f800:e136:c783:2fab IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 64 HardwareAddress: 08:00:27:00:10:03 MediumType: Ethernet Status: Up VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter

Name: VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter GUID: 6da56c07-f977-4e84-abd5-d85510dc613f DHCP: Disabled IPAddress: 0.0.0.0 NetworkMask: 0.0.0.0 IPV6Address: IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 0 HardwareAddress: 00:00:00:00:00:00 MediumType: Unknown Status: Unknown VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter

c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox> c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox> c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox> c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe hostonlyif remove "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter" 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%

c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox> c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox> c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe list -l hostonlyifs

c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>

[Alps]

Anyone met the same problem?

[gremlin000]

I just saw this same problem on Windows 8 as well. I could not get a Host Only adapter to work with the same set of steps you posted above. Tried on VirtualBox 4.2.16 and 4.1.26

[gremlin000]

I can also add that when creating the VirtualBox Host Only Adapter, a Windows error dialog is presented saying that you cannot rename Local Area Network Connection.

[Rob Ward]

I've also run into this same problem. I'm using VirtualBox 4.2.18 on Windows 8 x64.

Any help or workarounds would be most appreciated.

[richardgh]

I also have this problem. VirtualBox 4.2.18 on Windows 8 x64.

I have done multiple uninstall/re-installs. I have tried purging entries/old UUIDs from the registry. Tried creating and removing additional host-only adapters.

If I knew where it got the list from it would help. I say that thinking I have purged all references from the registry, but clearly I could not have since it is not in the .xml file. I have deleted the .VirtualBox folder between installs.

I believe it started when I went to add a 2nd entry and the 2nd entry ended up with the exact same name, so "# 2" was NOT added to the end of the name. Prioer to that I had tried assigning the address to the original interface through the control panel, maybe even changed the name of the interface from "VirtualBox Host-Only Network".

[richardgh]

Just installed 4.3.0.
Only saw 1 host-only adapater in gui.
Clicked to add another.
Got the following error.

Failed to create the host network interface.

Assertion failed: [!aGuid.isValid()] at 'D:\tinderbox\win-4.3\src\VBox\Main\src-server\HostNetworkInterfaceImpl.cpp' (74) in long __cdecl HostNetworkInterface::init(class com::Bstr,class com::Bstr,class com::Guid,enum __MIDL___MIDL_itf_VirtualBox_0000_0000_0034).

Please contact the product vendor!.

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: HostNetworkInterface
Interface: IHostNetworkInterface {f6e556f9-d598-409b-898c-8ba99d9b05ae}

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.