Vagrant box rockylinux/8 fails for virtualbox provider with error VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND

Rocky Linux General
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To enable UEFI in VirtualBox 7.0 there’s info in the respective manuals:

To test the supplied fix:

  • Create Vagrantfile in working directory:
    Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "rockylinux/8"
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |domain|
    domain.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--firmware", "efi"]
  end
end
  • Create bugfix box metadata file named box-metadata.json in working directory:
    {
  "name" : "rockylinux/8",
  "description" : "Rocky Linux 8 7.0.0 Bugfix",
  "versions" : [
    {
      "version" : "7.0.1-20221213.0",
      "providers" : [
        {
          "name" : "virtualbox",
          "url" : "http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86_64/Rocky-8-Vagrant-Vbox-8.7-20221213.0.x86_64.box"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
  • Add bugfix box:
    vagrant box add box-metadata.json
  • Bring up the box:
    vagrant up
  • Box runs without error.
    $ vagrant ssh -- "sudo cat /etc/rocky-release"
Rocky Linux release 8.7 (Green Obsidian)

Thanks again @nazunalika

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