[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#868944: virtualbox: Fails to "up" vboxnet0 for host-only interface

[Sven-Haegar Koch]

Package: virtualbox
Version: 5.1.24-dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Since (one of) the last updates, virtualbox fails to set the host-only
interfaces vboxnet0 and vboxnet1 to "up".

It configures the correct IP to the interfaces, but does not do
"ifconfig vboxnet0 up" or "ip link set vboxnet0 up".

aurora64:~# ip addr show dev vboxnet1
47: vboxnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.152.1/24 scope global vboxnet1
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Because of this communication to a running virtual machine fails.

After a manual "ip link set vboxnet1 up" it works fine.

Greetings
Sven

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers oldoldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
ii  adduser                               3.115
ii  init-system-helpers                   1.49
ii  iproute2                              4.9.0-1
ii  libc6                                 2.24-12
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                       7.52.1-5
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1                    2:1.02.137-2+b1
ii  libgcc1                               1:7.1.0-9
ii  libgsoap-2.8.49                       2.8.49-1
ii  libpng16-16                           1.6.30-2
ii  libpython3.5                          3.5.3-3
ii  libsdl1.2debian                       1.2.15+dfsg1-4
ii  libssl1.1                             1.1.0f-3
ii  libstdc++6                            7.1.0-9
ii  libvncserver1                         0.9.11+dfsg-1
ii  libvpx4                               1.6.1-3
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcursor1                           1:1.1.14-1+b4
ii  libxext6                              2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxml2                               2.9.4+dfsg1-3
ii  libxmu6                               2:1.1.2-2
ii  libxt6                                1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                                2:3.3.12-3
ii  python3                               3.5.3-3
ii  python3.5                             3.5.3-3
ii  virtualbox-dkms [virtualbox-modules]  5.1.24-dfsg-2
ii  virtualbox-source                     5.1.24-dfsg-2
ii  zlib1g                                1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  17.1.4-1
ii  libqt5core5a              5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5opengl5             5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5widgets5            5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  virtualbox-qt             5.1.24-dfsg-2

Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
pn  vde2                            <none>
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  5.1.24-1

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