Guest fails to start w/VLAN Interface in OSX

[Ryan]

error: Unknown error creating VM (VERR_GENERAL_FAILURE).

how to reproduce:

1. Create VLAN Interface in OSX (Requires Supported Interface)
   
2. Assign VLAN Interface to Virtual Interface in a new or existing Guest.
   
3. Start Guest, error is encountered.
   

Note, this setup works fine in both OpenSolaris & Debian VBox Hosts.

[Ryan]

Screenshot of Error Message

[Ryan]

*note*

bridging the physical interface and then trying to setup a vlan interface within guest fails to pass vlan tags out host interface. This behavior is the same in all Host OS's apparently.

this issue completely prevents direct network access from a vlan tagging OSX host, NAT and Internal network seem to work normally.

[alexhq]

Any status update?

[Ryan]

Verified this issue still exists in 3.0.2-44928-OSX

Observed same issue in 2.2.x versions.

[Ryan]

correction, still exists in version 3.0.2-49928-OSX (most recent as of this post)

[luy]

Hi, I'm getting the same issue in 3.0.8 r53138 under Snow Leopard Thanks

[Ryan]

Issue still exists in latest VirtualBox-3.1.6-59351-OSX on up-to-date SnowLeopard, however with a new error (attaching screenshot of new error message)

NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)

[David Campbell]

Still present 3.2.6 r63112 on Leopard, CentOS 5.4 guest OS, even if I set the MAC address to the same as the host NIC.

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)