Vagrant up errors on install on Mac OS X

Instead of MAMP I use Vagrant to set up my virtualhosts locally. That way you can emulate your webserver’s setup.

To configure my Vagrant virtual machine I use PuPHPet. You need to have VirtualBox installed for this. After downloading the  PuPHPet configuration manifest you need to start up the virtual box. You do this by executing this command:

vagrant up

 Sometimes I get this error while it’s configuration the virtual machine:

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 HostNetworkInterface, interface IHostNetworkInterface
VBoxManage: error: Context: "int handleCreate(HandlerArg*, int, int*)" at line 68 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp

 To resolve this issue on Mac OS X you use the following command which restarts virtualbox.

sudo /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox restart

 After that, try “vagrant up” again.

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