Vbox: VBOX_KERNEL_MODULE_NOT_LOADED

[agupta-ionos]

The exact command to reproduce the issue: minikube start

The full output of the command that failed: *

minikube v1.1.1 on linux (amd64)
* Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2048MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
E0618 11:18:00.868581   29579 start.go:529] StartHost: create: precreate: We support Virtualbox starting with version 5. Your VirtualBox install is "WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module\n         available for the current kernel (3.10.0-957.21.2.el7.x86_64) or it failed to\n         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by\n\n           sudo /sbin/vboxconfig\n\n         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.\n6.0.8r130520". Please upgrade at https://www.virtualbox.org

X Unable to start VM
* Error:         [VBOX_KERNEL_MODULE_NOT_LOADED] create: precreate: We support Virtualbox starting with version 5. Your VirtualBox install is "WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module\n         available for the current kernel (3.10.0-957.21.2.el7.x86_64) or it failed to\n         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by\n\n           sudo /sbin/vboxconfig\n\n         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.\n6.0.8r130520". Please upgrade at https://www.virtualbox.org
* Advice:        Run 'sudo modprobe vboxdrv' and reinstall VirtualBox if it fails.
* Related issues:
  - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/4043

* If the above advice does not help, please let us know:
  - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new


**The output of the `minikube logs` command**: X api load: filestore: Docker machine "minikube" does not exist. Use "docker-machine ls" to list machines. Use "docker-machine create" to add a new one.

* Sorry that minikube crashed. If this was unexpected, we would love to hear from you:
  - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new

The operating system version: cent os 7

[medyagh]

Thank you for taking the time to create this issue, I am curious have you tried the advise that minikube output given you ?

* Advice:        Run 'sudo modprobe vboxdrv' and reinstall VirtualBox if it fails.
* Related issues:
  - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/4043

[afbjorklund]

Sometimes this is caused by not rebooting after installing VirtualBox

[agupta-ionos]

The system I am using is from cloud itself.. so may be it is already running on a virtual environment thats why we can't avail the functionalities of VirtualBox.

[afbjorklund]

Yeah, probably the cloud environment does not support running VirtualBox

[tstromberg]

Closing: we've revised the error message to be more useful now. Thank you for the feedback!