I had to work out of the office today and brought a copy of the Windows 2000 appliance I have on my Windows 7 machine at the office.
Copied this to the Mac I am now on (Mavericks) and copied the files into the /Users/myUserName/VirtualBox VMs directory.
Added the host-only adapter to the VB preferences and then added this to the network for the specific machine.
When running the virtual machine I boots and then fails with
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Win2000ServerAdv.
Nonexistent host networking interface, name 'VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' (VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Console
Interface: IConsole {8ab7c520-2442-4b66-8d74-4ff1e195d2b6}
Now I am no netowkring expert but my guess is that issue lies with the fact that 'VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter'is the name of the adapter on Windows and on a Mac this gets named to 'vboxnet0'.
Is there a simple work around for this poosibly, I thought there would have been a way to rename the vboxnet0 adapter name to 'VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' but cannot see anything for this, not even in the command line tools.
Any help in this regard would be great, or a simply 'No it cant be done' would be helpful.
Ta
John
Best Answer
From https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7067:
On Linux I had to manually create the vboxnet0 interface:
$ vboxmanage hostonlyif create then manually edit each .vbox file and change all lines:
to