Nanobox-server fail to start on OSX when tap.kext not found

[vsilva007]

Tested OSX version: 10.12.6

Action User tries to start nanobox with nanobox start command

Terminal output

$nanobox start Root privileges are required to start the server. Your system password may be requested... Password:

Error : nanobox-server service start was successful but the service is not running Context :

Error : exit status 1 Context :

/var/log/nanobox.log

$ more /var/log/nanobox.log 2017-12-07 02:08:58 INFO Starting nanobox server... 2017-12-07 02:08:58 INFO Updating nanobox-update

Affected code /nanobox/commands/server/server.go line 127

// the tap driver needs to be loaded anytime nanobox is running the vpn (always on osx) func startTAP() error { if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" { out, err := exec.Command("/sbin/kextload", "/Library/Extensions/tap.kext").CombinedOutput() if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("Failed to load tap extensions - %s. Output - %s", err.Error(), out) } lumber.Info("Loaded tap extensions") } return nil }

Exception handling at this point is not effective and the start process fails silently.

Provisional solution

Install kernel extension manually: https://github.com/saittam/tuntaposx/tree/master/tuntap