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Host-only port preventing VM to start on Windows host

The OVA-appliance image has two ethernet ports configured:

  • enp0s03 is a NAT port used to connect to the internet, but NOT the host
  • enp0s8 is a Host-only port used to communicate with the host to enable the X11 forwarding over ssh
  • If the VM fails to launch after importing the *.ova appliance image, look at the logs by selecting:
    • [Machine]->[Show Log…] from the VirtualBox menu
    • or with the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+L].
  • Look for the an error message that starts with “Failed to open/create the internal network…”.