During the first attempt to start Minikube you may receive the following error: “This computer doesn’t have VT-X/AMD-v enabled“.
This error may occur even if virtualization is enabled in BIOS and you don’t have any issues with creating and running the virtual machines on your computer.
This note shows a fast workaround of the error: “This computer doesn’t have VT-X/AMD-v enabled“.
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This computer doesn’t have VT-X/AMD-v enabled
The full error looks like this:
* minikube v1.24.0 on Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19042 Build 19042 * Automatically selected the virtualbox driver * Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube * Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ... ! StartHost failed, but will try again: creating host: create: precreate: This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory * Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ... * Failed to start virtualbox VM. Running "minikube delete" may fix it: creating host: create: precreate: This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory X Exiting due to HOST_VIRT_UNAVAILABLE: Failed to start host: creating host: create: precreate: This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory * Suggestion: Virtualization support is disabled on your computer. If you are running minikube within a VM, try '--driver=docker'. Otherwise, consult your systems BIOS manual for how to enable virtualization. * Related issues: - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/3900 - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/4730
To workaround this error you can try to start Minikube with the --no-vtx-check parameter:
$ minikube start --no-vtx-check