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Can't start minkube: VirtualBox is not installed on the machine #9

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@zelima

As a developer whothout any experience with minikube, I want to know what I need to have installed (and maybe how), so that I can start it easiely.

Acceptance Criteria

  • Able to start minkube following instructions from README
  • Do not have to google around to start minkube server

Tasks

  • Do analysis
  • Update README with instuctions if neccessary

Analysis

As a developer I encountered the following error after installed Minkube and trying to start it as suggestetd in README

minikube start --kubernetes-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION}"
Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
E1105 15:27:46.230633   25830 start.go:187] Error starting host: Error creating host: Error executing step: Running precreate checks.
: VBoxManage not found. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path.

 Retrying.
E1105 15:27:46.231159   25830 start.go:193] Error starting host:  Error creating host: Error executing step: Running precreate checks.
: VBoxManage not found. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path
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I had to do following to make it running

  • Install virtualbox
  • Include --vm-driver flag when starting minkube

Install virtualbox

This tutorial hellped https://websiteforstudents.com/installing-virtualbox-5-2-ubuntu-17-04-17-10/

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get -y install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2

Run with --vm-driver=

minikube start --kubernetes-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION}" --vm-driver=virtualbox

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  1. akariv commented on Nov 13, 2019

    @akariv
    Contributor
  2. changed the title [-]Can't start minkube: VirtualBox is not installed on the machinve[/-] [+]Can't start minkube: VirtualBox is not installed on the machine[/+] on Nov 18, 2019
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