Host Only adapter stoped working on 6.1.30

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thar02
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Host Only adapter stoped working on 6.1.30

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I updated my VirtualBox yesterday from 6.1.28 to 6.1.30.It still shows 6.1.28 on the about-box (Version 6.1.28 r147628 (Qt5.6.3)) but when I run "Check for updates" I get that I am on the most recent version.
The problem is that when I start my virtual machines that worked before the updates the network dont work between the physical mashine and the virtual hosts.
Between the virtual mashines it seams to work ok.
I can see in the change log that somthing was done with the "Host-only adapter".
Is it just me or can someone verify that there is a problem?
scottgus1
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Re: Host Only adapter stoped working on 6.1.30

Post by scottgus1 »

If you're using the Host-Only adapter, then there has been a change:

There is a new requirement for Host-Only networks since 6.1.28 that plugs a security hole. See https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06. ... k_hostonly, at the end of the section, starting at "On Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris Oracle VM VirtualBox...".
thar02
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Re: Host Only adapter stoped working on 6.1.30

Post by thar02 »

Thanks scottgus1 for your help, You saved me a lot of hours :).
It seams that the allowed ip-range have changed and some of the vboxnet<n> was out of the scope.
So if someone else have the problem change the vboxnet<n> configurations to comply with the 192.168.56.0/21 range (Adapter and DHCP). Then it started to work again.
scottgus1
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Re: Host Only adapter stoped working on 6.1.30

Post by scottgus1 »

Great! Glad you're up and running.

FWIW adding the ranges one wants to use to the configuration file is also supposed to work.
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