minikube start {OS type not recognized}

Question

minikube start

giving below error messaage on Manjaro Deepin ( Arch Linux ).

E1002 00:02:24.832976 26272 start.go:143] Error starting host: Temporary Error: Error configuring auth on host: OS type not recognized.

tried it on VirtualBox with Ubuntu 16.04 and VT-X/AMD-v not enable error giving even Virtualbox preference set to VT-X/AMD-v enable.

Note : Need to fix the issue on my local machine not the virtualBox

uname -a output

Linux xxx-pc 4.9.51-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 20 10:37:40 UTC 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Answer 1

If working on Linux, follow the steps:

Uninstall/delete all minikube related files

1. minikube delete
2. rm /usr/local/minikube
3. rm -rf ~/.minikube

Then do minikube start again. If it doesn't work uninstall & reinstall minikube.

For Windows user follow these steps:

1. Do minikube delete
2. Delete C:\Users\username\.minikube folder.
3. Do minikube start again.

Also, don't forget to stop all the process related to VirtualBox including VBoxHeadless before deleting minikube.

Answer 2

Please Enable VT-x on your computer's BIOS. For Reference: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/