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How to fix VM issue with minikube start ?

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?

Solution

  • 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.