Virtualbox host network device vboxnet0 not working

[shankao]

Since the last virtualbox upgrade (5.1.24) the vboxnet0 host-only network device doesn't work:

shankao@maldita:~$ ifconfig vboxnet0
vboxnet0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.57.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 0.0.0.0
        ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0 dropped 10 overruns 0 frame 0
        TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

shankao@maldita:~$ ifconfig up vboxnet0
vboxnet0: Unknown server error
ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.
shankao@maldita:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: virtualbox 5.1.24-dfsg-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 27 17:13:46 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-25 (1705 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120627)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_SG:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[shankao (shankao)]

Fixed with the update to 5.1.26

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

thanks, I forgot to close this one :)
I got a lot of bug reports for this issue!