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 “192.168.99.1/24”)
• --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

Last modified April 4, 2020: Change directory case (4593ac355)