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Mac vagrant up Error: VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the host-only adapter VBoxManage: error: Context: “RTEXITCODE handleCreate(HandlerArg *)” at line 95 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp

1.Error Messages:
There was an error while executing VBoxManage, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.
Command: [“hostonlyif”, “create”]
Stderr: 0%…
Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE
VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the host-only adapter
VBoxManage: error: VBoxNetAdpCtl: Error while adding new interface: failed to open /dev/vboxnetctl: No such file or directory
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component HostNetworkInterfaceWrap, interface IHostNetworkInterface
VBoxManage: error: Context: “RTEXITCODE handleCreate(HandlerArg *)” at line 95 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp

2. Solution:

sudo "/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh" restart