machyve / xhyve

xhyve, a lightweight OS X virtualization solution
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Provide more specific error than "virtio_net: Could not create vmnet interface, permission denied or no entitlement?" #130

Open nhooey opened 7 years ago

nhooey commented 7 years ago

This error message isn't very useful, and it seems to occur in several different situations:

It would help if the error would specifically say whether it's a permissions error, and describe what "entitlement" means.

xpepermint commented 4 years ago

Looks like you need sudo.