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Laravel homestead does not work

I am trying to get homestead to work on my new mac. (I never had a problem on my previous mac) but It is not happening for me.

When I go vagrant up This is what I get.

Bringing machine 'homestead' up with 'virtualbox' provider...

==> homestead: Importing base box 'laravel/homestead'...

==> homestead: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...

==> homestead: Checking if box 'laravel/homestead' version '8.2.1' is up to date...

==> homestead: Setting the name of the VM: homestead

==> homestead: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...

There was an error while executing VBoxManage, a CLI used by Vagrant for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["hostonlyif", "create"]

Stderr: 0%...

Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE

VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the host-only adapter

VBoxManage: error: VBoxNetAdpCtl: Error while adding new interface: failed to open /dev/vboxnetctl: No such file or directory

VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component HostNetworkInterfaceWrap, interface IHostNetworkInterface

VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleCreate(HandlerArg *)" at line 94 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp`

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Btw for reasons I won't go into I cant use Valet.

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