minikube: Minikube start virtualbox hang on MacOS Big Sur
I am trying to start minikube on MacOS.
I have installed all needed software via homebrew.
When I type minikube start I get following error:
minikube start --driver=virtualbox
😄 minikube v1.16.0 on Darwin 11.1
✨ Using the virtualbox driver based on user configuration
💿 Downloading VM boot image ...
> minikube-v1.16.0.iso.sha256: 65 B / 65 B [-------------] 100.00% ? p/s 0s
> minikube-v1.16.0.iso: 212.62 MiB / 212.62 MiB [] 100.00% 26.49 MiB p/s 8s
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
💾 Downloading Kubernetes v1.20.0 preload ...
> preloaded-images-k8s-v8-v1....: 491.00 MiB / 491.00 MiB 100.00% 27.30 Mi
🔥 Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=6000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🔥 Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...
🤦 StartHost failed, but will try again: creating host: create: creating: Maximum number of retries (5) exceeded
🔥 Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=6000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
😿 Failed to start virtualbox VM. Running "minikube delete" may fix it: creating host: create: creating: Maximum number of retries (5) exceeded
❌ Exiting due to GUEST_PROVISION: Failed to start host: creating host: create: creating: Maximum number of retries (5) exceeded
😿 If the above advice does not help, please let us know:
👉 https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose
I have tried to reinstall virtualbox and also tried the command minikube delete. Also tried to delete the .minikube folder also. No luck 😦
Anyone have the same issue? How can I make it run with virtualbox?
Thank you for help!
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 4 years ago
- Comments: 17 (2 by maintainers)
If i dont select any driver it uses docker, but I want to use VirtualBox. With Docker it works. I am using MacOS Big Sur 😃 Using
hyperkitworks. But notvirtualbox😕