Ticket #7741 (closed defect: fixed)
Cannot create new hostonlyif - 3.2.10 => Fixed in SVN
Reported by: | emilam | Owned by: | |
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Component: | network/hostif | Version: | VirtualBox 3.2.10 |
Keywords: | hostonlyif | Cc: | |
Guest type: | BSD | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I am attempting to create several hostonlyif's for my pfSense VM to have multiple subnets and the command gives the following error.
The host OS is Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 LTS
pa-dss@pa-dss:~$ VBoxManage hostonlyif ipconfig vboxnet1 --ip 192.168.1.1 --netmask 255.255.255.0
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.10 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved.
ERROR: The host network interface with the given name could not be found Details: code NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057), component Host, interface IHost, callee nsISupports Context: "FindHostNetworkInterfaceByName(name, hif.asOutParam())" at line 239 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp error: Could not find interface 'vboxnet1'
The commands for creating and removing of host-only interfaces will become available in the next maintenance release. The syntax for creating new host-only interfaces will be
The above command prints out the name of new interface. Then the interface can be configured with