Minikube: Improve error handling for "VirtualBox won't boot a 64bits VM when Hyper-V is activated"

[Dhiraj0007]

Shows the error bellow:
! Unable to start VM: create: precreate: This computer is running Hyper-V. VirtualBox won't boot a 64bits VM when Hyper-V is activated. Either use Hyper-V as a driver, or disable the Hyper-V hypervisor. (To skip this check, use --virtualbox-no-vtx-check)

[RA489]

@Dhiraj0007 IIUC are you using virtualbox to create the VM when Hyper-V is activated?

[Dhiraj0007]

Yes

[RA489]

@Dhiraj0007 Only one hypervisor can run at a time, and since Hyper-V runs all the time as it is enabled virtualbox won't boot a 64bits VM. The workaround is to disable Hyper-V when you want to run VirtualBox.

[RA489]

@Dhiraj0007 try this workaround and lets see this works for you or not?

[snip300r]

Did we find any solution for this problem?

[aningoo]

When you want to use Hyper-V instead of the default vBox.

1) run CMD as admin
2) "minikube start --vm-driver hyperv"

3) optional, you might need this:
https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/hyper-v/

[KnutRyagerInmeta]

I was able to deactivate hyper-V. However, now I get an error message from Docker that it requires Hyper-V to work properly, and minikube start just stops at Preparing Kubernetes v1.15.2 on Docker 18.09.8 ... indefinitely. My understanding is that running Docker containers is the main purpose of Kubernetes? Confused.

[codepractisedemo]

I am also facing the similar problem , when you disable the deactivate hyper-V and it wont able to connect the virtual box itself. since i have download the latest version

[lukasmrtvy]

@tstromberg Latest VirtualBox 6.1.16 can run 64bits VM with Hyper-V backend