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| title | weight | aliases | |
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| virtualbox | 5 |
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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. Passing a disallowed value to
--host-only-cidrwill result in a VirtualBox access denied error:VBoxManage: error: Code E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) - Access denied (extended info not available).
- 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. Passing a disallowed value to
--no-vtx-check: Disable checking for the availability of hardware virtualization
Issues
Troubleshooting
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Run
minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7to debug crashes -
If you experience slow network performance with the VirtualBox driver, changing the Network Interface Card (NIC) type may improve speed. Use the following command to start minikube with the AMD PCNet FAST III (Am79C973) for both NAT and host-only network interfaces:
minikube start --vm-driver=virtualbox --nat-nic-type=Am79C973 --host-only-nic-type=Am79C973