Issues with Vagrant up

[Bibudh Lahiri]

Hi
  I am new to P4, and currently trying to get Vagrant + VirtualBox running before trying the tutorial examples. I have Ubuntu 22.04 installed on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Version 2, VirtualBox-7.0.10 installed on Windows 11, and VirtualBox-6.1.38 and Vagrant 2.2.19 on Ubuntu (WSL). Additionally, I also have the virtualbox_WSL2 plugin installed.
 
   Before running the p4 examples, I am trying this simple https://blog.thenets.org/how-to-run-vagrant-on-wsl-2/ example to create a Vagrantfile using the Vagrant CLI, start a VM using the Vagrantfile and login to the VM. However, "vagrant up" provides the message below:

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'libvirt' provider...
Error while connecting to Libvirt: Error making a connection to libvirt URI qemu:///system:
Call to virConnectOpen failed: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory

   and "vagrant up --provider virtualbox" provides the message below:

 The provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine 'default' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The reason is shown below:
VirtualBox is complaining that the installation is incomplete. Please run `VBoxManage --version` to see the error message which should contain instructions on how to fix this error.

  VBoxManage --version provides the message below:

 WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
         Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-standard. You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
6.1.38_Ubuntur153438

I have installed virtualbox-dkms and linux-headers-standard, but they don't seem to help.
Can someone please suggest a workaround?

Thanks

            Bibudh

[Andy Fingerhut]

I have successfully followed the instructions in the https://github.com/p4lang/tutorials repository, in particular the directory of that repo named vm-ubuntu-20.04, on several systems:

+ Windows 10 + VirtualBox 6.1 and later

+ Windows 11 + VirtualBox 6.1 and later

+ macOS 12.6.x + VirtualBox 6.1 and later

+ some earlier versions of macOS, I do not recall exactly how far back, but since about 2019 or so

I have never tried to follow those instructions on a Windows system with WSL installed.  I have no idea whether there are issues with trying that or not.

Andy

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