minikube start is giving OS Type not recognized

Question

I am using the below command.

minikube start
It is displaying below error message 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.
I tried it on VirtualBox with Ubuntu 16.04 and VT-X/AMD-v.
 I gave even Virtualbox preference to VT-X/AMD-v enable.Can anyone help me with this ?
Thank you

Answer 1

Well you can follow the below steps :

Please Enable VT-x on your computer's BIOS.

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

Hope it would help you.

Answer 2

Uninstall/delete all minikube related files on your Linux

minikube delete
rm /usr/local/minikube
rm -rf ~/.minikube

And then start minikube again

Comments

This is on Linux right?

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Yeesss these commands are to be executed if you're running minikube on linux

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For Windows? Windows 10 to be specific.

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For Windows 10:

• Do minikube delete
• Delete C:\Users\username\.minikube folder.
• Do minikube start again.

Answer 3

For Windows 10:

• Do minikube delete
• Delete C:\Users\username\.minikube folder.
• Do minikube start again.

Answer 4

I had the same issue. i had to switch off Hyper-V. That worked for me!