virtualbox

Overview

VirtualBox is minikube’s original driver. It may not provide the fastest start-up time, but it is the most stable driver available for users of Microsoft Windows Home.

Requirements

• VirtualBox 5.2 or higher

Usage

Start a cluster using the virtualbox driver:

minikube start --driver=virtualbox

To make virtualbox the default driver:

minikube config set driver virtualbox

Special features

minikube start supports some VirtualBox specific flags:

• --host-only-cidr: The CIDR to be used for the minikube VM (default “192.168.59.1/24”)
  • On Linux, Mac OS X and Oracle Solaris with VirtualBox >= 6.1.28, only IP addresses in the 192.168.56.0/21 range are allowed for host-only networking by default. Passing a disallowed value to --host-only-cidr will result in a VirtualBox access denied error: VBoxManage: error: Code E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) - Access denied (extended info not available).
• --no-vtx-check: Disable checking for the availability of hardware virtualization

Issues

• Full list of open ‘virtualbox’ driver issues

Troubleshooting

• Run minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7 to debug crashes