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title: "virtualbox"
weight: 5
aliases:
  - /docs/reference/drivers/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.

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## Special features

minikube start supports some VirtualBox specific flags:

* **`--host-only-cidr`**: The CIDR to be used for the minikube VM (default "192.168.59.1/24")
  * On Linux, Mac OS X and Oracle Solaris with VirtualBox >= 6.1.28, [only IP addresses in the 192.168.56.0/21 range are allowed for host-only networking by default](https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_hostonly). Passing a disallowed value to `--host-only-cidr` will result in a VirtualBox access denied error: `VBoxManage: error: Code E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) - Access denied (extended info not available)`.
* **`--no-vtx-check`**: Disable checking for the availability of hardware virtualization

## Issues

* [Full list of open 'virtualbox' driver issues](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/labels/co%2Fvirtualbox)

## Troubleshooting

* Run `minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7` to debug crashes