Can't start minkube: VirtualBox is not installed on the machine

As a developer whothout any experience with minikube, I want to know what I need to have installed (and maybe how), so that I can start it easiely.

Acceptance Criteria

[ ] Able to start minkube following instructions from README
[ ] Do not have to google around to start minkube server

Tasks

[ ] Do analysis
[ ] Update README with instuctions if neccessary

Analysis

As a developer I encountered the following error after installed Minkube and trying to start it as suggestetd in README

minikube start --kubernetes-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION}"
Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
E1105 15:27:46.230633   25830 start.go:187] Error starting host: Error creating host: Error executing step: Running precreate checks.
: VBoxManage not found. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path.

 Retrying.
E1105 15:27:46.231159   25830 start.go:193] Error starting host:  Error creating host: Error executing step: Running precreate checks.
: VBoxManage not found. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path
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I had to do following to make it running

Install virtualbox
Include --vm-driver flag when starting minkube

Install virtualbox

This tutorial hellped https://websiteforstudents.com/installing-virtualbox-5-2-ubuntu-17-04-17-10/

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get -y install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2

Run with --vm-driver=

minikube start --kubernetes-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION}" --vm-driver=virtualbox

Probably would be best to refer to the official instructions at

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/

instead of rewriting a short version of those instructions in our README.

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 2:06 PM Irakli Mchedlishvili < notifications@github.com> wrote:

As a developer whothout any experience with minikube, I want to know what I need to have installed (and maybe how), so that I can start it easiely. Acceptance Criteria

Able to start minkube following instructions from README

Do not have to google around to start minkube server

Tasks

Do analysis

Update README with instuctions if neccessary

Analysis

As a developer I encountered the following error after installed Minkube and trying to start it as suggestetd in README https://github.com/ViderumGlobal/ckan-cloud-helm/blob/master/QUICKSTART_DEVELOPMENT.md#start-a-minikube-cluster

minikube start --kubernetes-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION}" Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster... Starting VM... E1105 15:27:46.230633 25830 start.go:187] Error starting host: Error creating host: Error executing step: Running precreate checks. : VBoxManage not found. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path.

Retrying. E1105 15:27:46.231159 25830 start.go:193] Error starting host: Error creating host: Error executing step: Running precreate checks. : VBoxManage not found. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path

An error has occurred. Would you like to opt in to sending anonymized crash information to minikube to help prevent future errors? To opt out of these messages, run the command: minikube config set WantReportErrorPrompt false

I had to do following to make it running

Install virtualbox

Include --vm-driver flag when starting minkube

Install virtualbox

This tutorial hellped https://websiteforstudents.com/installing-virtualbox-5-2-ubuntu-17-04-17-10/

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get -y install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2

Run with --vm-driver=

minikube start --kubernetes-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION}" --vm-driver=virtualbox

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