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Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #15019, comment 30

Timestamp:: Jan 19, 2018 4:51:34 PM (6 years ago)
Author:: Bubbie

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Ticket #15019, comment 30

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 After following a few links, via "maltem"'s comment, earlier in this thread ( https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15019#comment:29 ), it occurred to me to double-check the VirtualBox network adapters, via Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections, and lo and behold, both host-only adapters were greyed-out (disabled). All I had to do was right-click and Enable both and this problem was resolved in my case!
+For whatever it's worth, attempts to import a new VM yielded three separate Administrative elevation prompts, all of which I approved, yet it made no difference. Furthermore, I tried elevating the Powershell console to Administrator-level access before booting the VM with Vagrant, which made the prompts disappear (because they are of course unnecessary given Powershell's the elevated access), but the error condition did not change.
+For whatever it's worth, attempts to import a new VM yielded three separate Administrative elevation prompts, all of which I approved, so this wasn't a case of VirtualBox having insufficient permission to do whatever it was trying to do. Furthermore, I tried elevating the Powershell console to Administrator-level access before booting the VM with Vagrant, which made the prompts disappear (because they are of course unnecessary given Powershell's the elevated access), but the error condition did not change.
+Also, running the 5.2.6 installer's "Repair" option, which did require a restart (and I obliged), had no bearing on the observed behavior.
 So, the real question (if this is even the same or a similar issue) becomes, what disabled those adapters to begin with (clearly, something the installer did in the upgrade process), and why? And more importantly, why does VirtualBox not simply re-enable them on its own (or at least attempt to do so)?