I am trying to compile a project that uses Vagrant for its build system (Mastodon). It has been a… process. I have been hitting quite a lot of issues and have been able to track them down mostly thanks to posts on this forum. Unfortunately, I’ve not hit an issue that I’ve been unable to track down a solution for.
I have done the following so far:
# configuration.nix
{
# install vagrant
users.users.apropos.packages = with pkgs; [ vagrant ];
# enable virtualbox
virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enable = true;
# resolve weird NFS issues
services.nfs.server.enable = true;
# resolve weird host errors
environment.etc."vbox/networks.conf".text = ''
* 192.168.0.0/16
'';
# already disabled, likely relevant
networking.firewall.enable = false;
# already enabled, likely relevant
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
# already generated by hardware config, likely relevant
boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-amd" ];
}
In the Vagrant project, I have run vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater successfully (after configuring the above). However, when I run vagrant up, I get the following:
~/mastodon> vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Checking if box 'ubuntu/focal64' version '20240809.0.0' is up to date...
==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
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%...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 105 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp
What is this error and how can I fix it? I thought it might have been a missing VirtualBox component so I added virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enableExtensionPack = true; and users.extraGroups.vboxusers.members = [ "apropos" ]; to configuration.nix to no avail.
I have found a similar issue on the Arch forums, but I do not know how to adapt their solution to NixOS (in particular: I don’t know how to install vboxdrv nor do I have the vboxreload binary available).
