no longer able to get NFS working

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MattyMatt
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no longer able to get NFS working

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(Mod Edit: this was formerly posted in "Using Virtualbox: Discuss the 6.1.28 release")

Hi. Wondering if anyone else seeing the something similar after the 6.1.28 release - am no longer able to get NFS working. Failing with an: 'RPC Error: Unable to Receive' when executing the command: 'mount -o vers=3,udp,actimeo=1 172.28.128.1:/System/Volumes/Data/Users/*****/*****/dev-instance/vagrant-fp/rp3 /var/www/*****/****'

Was working on 6.1.26, but no longer. Any suggestions welcome!

Host: MacOS 11.6 (BigSur)
Guest: Ubuntu 16.04 via Vagrant (latest)
scottgus1
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Re: no longer able to get NFS working

Post by scottgus1 »

Moved to Mac Hosts, because Vagrant is involved. Vagrant uses Virtualbox in ways we don't grok, so we don't support Vagrant-influenced Virtualbox. Vagrant has help forums, if you wish.

If you can get the error happening while starting a Virtualbox-only-driven VM, then we might be able to help.
MattyMatt
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Re: no longer able to get NFS working

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Thanks. Will check there.
si-matt
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Re: no longer able to get NFS working

Post by si-matt »

Hey @MattyMatt, if you've recently upgraded to 6.1.28 then downgrade to 6.1.26. There's something wrong with host-only adapters in 6.1.28 that's causing issues. I first discovered through the NFS mounts and it spiralled from there.

For now the fix is to downgrade.
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Re: no longer able to get NFS working

Post by fth0 »

The behavior of Host-Only Networking has been changed. See 6.7. Host-Only Networking for details, especially the part below the text box.
MattyMatt
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Re: no longer able to get NFS working

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Downgrade to 6.1.26 did the trick for me. Thanks for the suggestion!
si-matt
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Re: no longer able to get NFS working

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Alternatively following the details at the end of the thread Virtual Box on Linux > Virtualbox-6.1.28 Does Not Assign IPs to HostOnly Network will resolve it.

Insane change for a patch version change and not at least a minor. Arg
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Re: no longer able to get NFS working

Post by scottgus1 »

Si-Matt probably refers to viewtopic.php?f=7&t=104198 where the info above from 'challengeursli' and some more bug workaround from 'aleksey-vb' gets host-only networks working again.
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Re: no longer able to get NFS working

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Yes thank you, couldn't post link due to account age.

Also, ensure you read the whole thing as the file can't contain empty lines for now. I made the file /etc/vbox/networks.conf with JUST the content

Code: Select all

* 10.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/12
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