Bridge Adapters not showing any network names

[steezy]

Good morning all, very new to virtualbox and probably using it for reasons far from everyone else on here, anyways. In my virtual router im in the settings trying to change the network settings. Under adapter 1 i should be able to select Briadge adapater and then under names i should be able to see my active connections ot choose where to get internet from. However, the names drop down box is empty. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, updated, everything you name it. Nothing works. I saw someone say installing a service to my internet adapter but that wont go through either. I just need these names to pop up. Any help is appreciated

[mpack]

That means that none of the available NICs has the bridged networking driver enabled in its driver stack.

Reinstall VirtualBox, this time make sure to allow installation of the Bridged Networking driver. Make sure you have rights to do so by using "Run as administrator" to run the installer.

Other drivers will also have been missed, e.g. the USB redirection driver, and the Host-Only network driver.

[steezy]

I’ve reinstalled many times and running as admin and I never saw this option. It’s always the same prompts as admin or not

[scottgus1]

Are there any "Vbox*.sys" files in your "C:\Windows\System32\drivers" folder?

[steezy]

Are there any "Vbox*.sys" files in your "C:\Windows\System32\drivers" folder?

Yes, i have as follows, VBoxNetAdap6, VBoxNetLwf, VBoxSup, and VBoxUSBMon

[scottgus1]

Good. Please check the host's network adapters' Properties, see if the Virtualbox NDIS6 Bridged Networking Driver is present and checked:

[steezy]

Good. Please check the host's network adapters' Properties, see if the Virtualbox NDIS6 Bridged Networking Driver is present and checked:

Virtualbox NDIS6 Bridged Networking Driver is not present on that list

[steezy]

I've already tried installing the driver through the properties window but i get an error: "Could not add the requested feature. The error is: Element not Found."

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[scottgus1]

Please check the options page of the Virtualbox installer:

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Are all your options showing the hard drive with the dropdown arrow, like the above picture?

[steezy]

Please check the options page of the Virtualbox installer:

Virtualbox installer options.png

Are all your options showing the hard drive with the dropdown arrow, like the above picture?

Away from pc at the moment but I remember it showing all of those just as yours does.

[scottgus1]

If they are, then something 3rd-party or in Windows on your PC is interfering in a way that Virtualbox does not normally suffer from. Maybe over-aggressive antivirus?

Try uninstalling Virtualbox, then running a Run As Admin install again from the command line with the following logging commands, this time disabling any realtime scanning by all security software, and doublecheck that the hard drive symbols look as above.

Make a new folder on your C drive to put the installer and the log it will make:
C:\VBinstall

Put the installer in the new folder. Open a Run-As-Admin command prompt. Drag-n-drop the installer on the Command Prompt window, then finish typing this in the command line:

"C:\VBinstall\VirtualBox-X.Y.Z-######-Win.exe"{space}--logging{space}--msi-log-file{space}"C:\VBinstall\textfile.txt"

So, as an example, for 6.1.36 it should've read:

"C:\VBinstall\VirtualBox-6.1.36-152435-Win.exe" --logging --msi-log-file "C:\VBinstall\msilog.txt"

If you don't get the NDIS Bridging driver in the adapter Properties, and Bridged doesn't show the adapters in "Names", please zip and post the log using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.

[steezy]

If they are, then something 3rd-party or in Windows on your PC is interfering in a way that Virtualbox does not normally suffer from. Maybe over-aggressive antivirus?

Try uninstalling Virtualbox, then running a Run As Admin install again from the command line with the following logging commands, this time disabling any realtime scanning by all security software, and doublecheck that the hard drive symbols look as above.

Make a new folder on your C drive to put the installer and the log it will make:
C:\VBinstall

Put the installer in the new folder. Open a Run-As-Admin command prompt. Drag-n-drop the installer on the Command Prompt window, then finish typing this in the command line:

"C:\VBinstall\VirtualBox-X.Y.Z-######-Win.exe"{space}--logging{space}--msi-log-file{space}"C:\VBinstall\textfile.txt"

So, as an example, for 6.1.36 it should've read:

"C:\VBinstall\VirtualBox-6.1.36-152435-Win.exe" --logging --msi-log-file "C:\VBinstall\msilog.txt"

If you don't get the NDIS Bridging driver in the adapter Properties, and Bridged doesn't show the adapters in "Names", please zip and post the log using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.

[steezy]

did not work, there is log file and showing the install screen matches yours

[fth0]

InstallNetLwf: VBoxNetCfgWinNetLwfInstall failed, error = 0x80070490

The installation of the NDIS Bridging driver failed for some reason. Do you have any so-called security software installed?

[steezy]

InstallNetLwf: VBoxNetCfgWinNetLwfInstall failed, error = 0x80070490

The installation of the NDIS Bridging driver failed for some reason. Do you have any so-called security software installed?

None that I know of and somehow I’m doing all this my main Ethernet adapter no longer works so I’ve had to buy 2 new usb adapters. But yeah no antivirus that I know of. I can try reinstalling with firewall off. Some games wouldn’t let me play online without it disabled so could be the culprit here