There is nary an error message that send shooting pain through a VPN user's spine than "Reason 422: Failed to enable Virtual Adapter".  There are too many reasons, too many ways it can be fixed.  The error might as well say "Bad thing - dunno." Well, after I installed VirtualBox onto yet another Windows 7 release candidate machine, my VPN client no longer worked, Reason 422 just laughing at me.

I tried rebooting.  No dice.

I tried unchecking the VirtualBox networking driver on the VPN adapter.  Nothing.

I tried removing VirtualBox.  No good.

So, I though I'd try to treat the Cisco VPN client like the fragile little primadonna that it is, and I have everything working again.

  1. Uninstall VirtualBox
  2. Uninstall the Cisco VPN client
  3. Install VirtualBox
  4. Install the Cisco VPN client

Reboot when the software installs and uninstalls tell you to.