Tag: virtualization

I recently installed VirtualBox configured internet connection to the internet for a virtual windows 7 machine I’ve installed using Vagrant, tried to setup USB, but got the following message: “Failed to save settings – Empty or null HostOnly interface name is not valid.”. Looking at the details, I saw the following “Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005) Component: NetworkAdapterWrapper …”.I don’t remember when I started to get that popup message. Couldn’t find any HostOnly adapter using the VirtualBox GUI. Finding the solution in the web is too hard. and I can’t find anything in the user guide either. But, one useful thing I know: in Linux and Unix-like system, I can find configuration files. They are usually found in directories whose names begin with ‘.’. followed by the program’s name or under “${HOME}/.config’ or directories created by the software. This time, the file was found in “${HOME}/VirtualBox VMs/<machine-name>”.
In this case: “${HOME}/VirtualBox VMs/windows7_default_1563689015423_90469/”. In this directory there are files with the suffix ‘.vbox’. They are XML files. In one of them, named “windows7_default_1563689015423_90469.vbox”, I find the following element:

        <Adapter slot="1" MACAddress="08002718154D" cable="true" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <InternalNetwork name="intnet"/%gt;
            <NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
          </DisabledModes>
          <HostOnlyInterface name="VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter #2"/>
        </Adapter>

Comment it out.
Problem solved.