Minikube install in Ubuntu vm_VT-X/AMD-v enabling to VM inside another VM

Question

I'm tring to install minikube in Ubuntu vm (in virtual box). I have enabled VT-X/AMD-v for the vm. But i'm getting following error.

# minikube start
Starting local Kubernetes cluster...
E0217 15:00:35.395801    3869 start.go:107] Error starting host: Error creating host: Error with pre-create check: "This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory".

 Retrying.
E0217 15:00:35.396019    3869 start.go:113] Error starting host:  Error creating host: Error with pre-create check: "This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory"
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I found a reference, according to that, we can not have virtualization inside virtualization. Is it true? How can i fix this?

Answer 1

Virtual Box does not support VT-X/AMD-v in nested virtualisation. See this open ticket/feature request on virtualbox.org.

There are also some more questions and answers here on SO discussing this topic.

Possible solutions:

1. As already mentioned: Use a different hypervisor that does support VT-X/AMD-v in nested virtualisation (like Xen, KVM or VMware).
2. Install Minikube on the host OS and not in a VM.
3. Run Minikube directly using Docker and the "none" driver option as described in Tad Guskis answer.