Vagrant starting Ubuntu Vm through VirtualBox on a Windows machine not able to set up network configuration

[Paul Davidson]

I have a Windows 8.1 machine. I have installed Vagrant and VirtualBox. If I start an Ubuntu VM (ubuntu/trusty32) up using VirtualBox it seems to start fine. I can then use the following command to connect:

    > vagrant ssh

However, if I instead use Vagrant to start the VM, it times out. The command I use is:

    > vagrant up

When this times out, I use VirtualBox to connect to the VM, and I see the following issues:

    waiting for network device

    gave up waiting for network device

    route info failed

    waiting for network configuration

    booting system without full Network Configuration

This to me, looks like a problem with my Vagrant configuration setup for the network. However, I use the basic config file from using:

    > vagrant init ubuntu/trusty32

I have the following network config on my Windows machine:

    Ethernet - using 10.1.2.91 (static)

    WiFi     - disabled

The network set up seems identical when I run showvminfo from VBoxManage. However, if I log into the Ubuntu VM, and run "ifconfig -a" the VM that is started with Vagrant is missing the following line:

    inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

Any ideas? Network issues are not my strong point.

[Paul Davidson]

Problem resolved by running this command in an elavated command prompt 

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

[Robert Lilly]

That's an important item to note. If the Windows machine has Hyper-V running it has to be turned off in order for VirtualBox to run correctly, especially when run through Vagrant. This applies to Windows 8.x and 10.