How to fix VM issue with minikube start ?

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Saty picture Saty · Sep 11, 2018 · Viewed 12.7k times · Source

I am a beginner to Kubernetes and starting off with this tutorial. I installed VM and expected to be able to start a cluster by using the command: 

minikube start

But I get the error: 

Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
E0911 13:34:45.394430   41676 start.go:174] Error starting host: Error 
creating host: Error executing step: Creating VM.
: Error setting up host only network on machine start: The host-only 
adapter we just created is not visible. This is a well known 
VirtualBox bug. You might want to uninstall it and reinstall at least 
version 5.0.12 that is is supposed to fix this issue.

It says that it is a well known bug in Virtualbox but I installed its latest version. Any ideas?

Answer

Saty picture Saty · Sep 11, 2018

Figured out the issue. VirtualBox was not installed correctly as Mac had blocked it. It wasn't obvious at first.

  • Restarting won't work if VirtualBox isn't installed correctly.

  • System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Allow -> Then allow the software corporation (in this case Oracle)

  • Restart

Now it worked as expected.

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