Host Only or Bridged networking on Virtualbox

Ran into this problem a few times, and wanted to share how I fixed my issues.

If you’re using vagrant, you probably ran into errors like:

It’s really simple, and I can’t believe I was trying to google it so much trying to avoid an uninstall. Turns out — you do need to uninstall!

  1. Uninstall the Oracle Virtualbox program

  2. Rerun your Virtualbox installer as administrator

  3. Let the installer do its thing

  4. Start Virtualbox, and observe that you can now select host only or bridged networking in your deployments!