Not Able start Minikube. It is showing bellow error. Please Help!!!!

[soujatyabhat]

What Happened?

Previously I was using Windows Version 19.04 . That time minikube was working fine . After Version update I'm facing this issue. I have already disable Hyper-V but Still showing this issue

Attach the log file

PS C:\Users\souja\Desktop\Flask-App> minikube start --driver=virtualbox --no-vtx-check
😄 minikube v1.26.0 on Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19044 Build 19044
✨ Using the virtualbox driver based on user configuration
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
🔥 Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🔥 Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...
🤦 StartHost failed, but will try again: creating host: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
VBoxManage.exe: error: The virtual machine 'minikube' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005)VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

😿 Failed to start virtualbox VM. Running "minikube delete" may fix it: error loading existing host. Please try running [minikube delete], then run [minikube start] again: filestore "minikube": open C:\Users\souja.minikube\machines\minikube\config.json: The system cannot find the file specified.

❌ Exiting due to GUEST_NOT_FOUND: Failed to start host: error loading existing host. Please try running [minikube delete], then run [mi
PS C:\Users\souja\Desktop\Flask-App> minikube start --driver=virtualbox --no-vtx-check
😄 minikube v1.26.0 on Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19044 Build 19044
🎉 minikube 1.26.1 is available! Download it: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/tag/v1.26.1
💡 To disable this notice, run: 'minikube config set WantUpdateNotification false'

✨ Using the virtualbox driver based on user configuration
💿 Downloading VM boot image ...
> minikube-v1.26.0-amd64.iso....: 65 B / 65 B [----------] 100.00% ? p/s 0s
> minikube-v1.26.0-amd64.iso: 268.86 MiB / 268.86 MiB 100.00% 4.83 MiB p/s
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
💾 Downloading Kubernetes v1.24.1 preload ...
> preloaded-images-k8s-v18-v1...: 405.83 MiB / 405.83 MiB 100.00% 3.59 MiB
🔥 Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🔥 Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...
🤦 StartHost failed, but will try again: creating host: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
VBoxManage.exe: error: The virtual machine 'minikube' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005)VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

😿 Failed to start virtualbox VM. Running "minikube delete" may fix it: error loading existing host. Please try running [minikube delete], then run [minikube start] again: filestore "minikube": open C:\Users\souja.minikube\machines\minikube\config.json: The system cannot find the file specified.
PS C:\Users\souja\Desktop\Flask-App> minikube start --driver=virtualbox --no-vtx-check
😄 minikube v1.26.0 on Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19044 Build 19044
✨ Using the virtualbox driver based on user configuration
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
🔥 Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🔥 Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...
🤦 StartHost failed, but will try again: creating host: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
VBoxManage.exe: error: The virtual machine 'minikube' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005)VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

🔥 Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
😿 Failed to start virtualbox VM. Running "minikube delete" may fix it: creating host: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
VBoxManage.exe: error: The virtual machine 'minikube' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005)VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

❌ Exiting due to GUEST_PROVISION: Failed to start host: creating host: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracl
e\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
VBoxManage.exe: error: The virtual machine 'minikube' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005)VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

Operating System

Windows

Driver

VirtualBox

[soujatyabhat]

Issue Resolved by running following steps

1. RUN bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off (Run this Command in CMD with Admin Privilege)
2. Do Restart
3. RUN minikube delete
4. RUN minikube start
5. To Validate RUN minikube IP

If you get IP as output the your issue got resolved.

If not please go through more troubleshoot technique mentioned in bellow LINK

#3900.