Minikube: VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

Created on 19 Apr 2017 · 4Comments · Source: kubernetes/minikube

BUG REPORT:

Minikube version : v0.18.0

Environment:

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
VM Driver: virtualbox (Version 5.1.18 r114002 (Qt5.5.1))
ISO version: ~/.minikube/cache/iso/minikube-v0.18.0.iso

What happened: After starting minikube (minikube start), I get this error:

Starting local Kubernetes cluster...
Starting VM...
E0419 09:07:23.145582    5675 start.go:116] Error starting host: Error starting stopped host: Unable to start the VM: /usr/bin/VBoxManage startvm minikube --type headless failed:
VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine 'minikube' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine
.

 Retrying.
E0419 09:07:23.146012    5675 start.go:122] Error starting host:  Error starting stopped host: Unable to start the VM: /usr/bin/VBoxManage startvm minikube --type headless failed:
VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine 'minikube' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

What you expected to happen:
virtualbox starts normally with minikube

How to reproduce it: In ubuntu,
1) install virtualbox
2) install minikube
3) start minikube with virtualbox driver
4) see the error

Anything else do we need to know:
I have tried some solutions which are posted in other bug reports for pretty the same problem, but none of them worked.
I also tried different versions of minikube and virtualbox without any success.

cvirtualbox kinsupport olinux

Source

mhabibi

Most helpful comment

I had tried by uninstalling but not purge. It seems to be fixed by:
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox virtualbox-dkms
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1

mhabibi on 20 Apr 2017

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Are you able to start other VM images with virtualbox? I'm guessing that this has to do with a bad Virtualbox installation. Have you tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling Virtualbox? That seems to be the primary suggestion here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/122211/getting-error-message-when-trying-to-start-a-virtual-machine

aaron-prindle on 19 Apr 2017

I had tried by uninstalling but not purge. It seems to be fixed by:
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox virtualbox-dkms
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1

mhabibi on 20 Apr 2017

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I just want to confirm that purging the virtualbox installation on Ubuntu machines did the trick. Apparently Ubuntu now comes out of the box with VirtualBox. However, the version is a little too old.