vboxnet0 no longer auto up after 5.1.24 upgrade

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DigiAngel
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vboxnet0 no longer auto up after 5.1.24 upgrade

Post by DigiAngel »

Topic really....after the 5.1.24 upgrade I have to manually sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 up now. Odd behavior. This is on Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop. Thank you.
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Re: vboxnet0 no longer auto up after 5.1.24 upgrade

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That's a known 5.1.24 regression. See viewtopic.php?f=7&t=83853 and try the test builds: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds
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Re: vboxnet0 no longer auto up after 5.1.24 upgrade

Post by DigiAngel »

Thank you...good infrmation.
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