Minishift not starting on Windows 10 VirtualBox

[naumanyousuf]

General information

• Minishift version: 1.34.3
• OS: Windows 10 enterprise
• Hypervisor: VirtualBox

Steps to reproduce

1. Fresh Installed Virtual Box 6.1 (rebooted ofcouse this is windows)
2. Downloaded Minishift
3. using the Admin command windows executed the following
4. minishift start --show-libmachine-logs --logtostderr -v5 --vm-driver virtualbox
5. I have verified my BIOS and virtualization is enabled there

System came out with an error

Logs

https://gist.github.com/naumanyousuf/0c6345ac2e9767341a9ebf354e33b173

[naumanyousuf]

Please note that the Hyper-V on my machine is disable

[texoff]

I have same problem

General information

• Minishift version: 1.34.3
• OS: Windows 10 enterprise
• Hypervisor: VirtualBox

Logs
https://gist.github.com/texoff/897fe7cbe5645d7311949062a9d11074

FAIL E0823 16:42:33.318891 10928 start.go:499] Error starting the VM: Error creating the VM. Error with pre-create check: "This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory". Retrying.
Error starting the VM: Error creating the VM. Error with pre-create check: "This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory"

[returntrip]

I figured it out out for my specific case: Windows 10 Enterprise.

Virtualbox nested virtualization does not work because of a feature called VBS (Virtualization Based Security) which in turn is used by a Windows 10 (Enterprise only?!?!) security feature called: "Device Guard".

The moment Device Guard and VBS are disabled, nested virtualization starts working again.

[ShelarRohan]

General information

• Minishift version: 1.34.3
• OS: Windows 10 enterprise
• Hypervisor: VirtualBox

Steps to reproduce

1. Fresh Installed Virtual Box 6.1 (rebooted ofcouse this is windows)
2. Downloaded Minishift
3. using the Admin command windows executed the following
4. minishift start --show-libmachine-logs --logtostderr -v5 --vm-driver virtualbox
5. I have verified my BIOS and virtualization is enabled there

System came out with an error

Logs

https://gist.github.com/naumanyousuf/0c6345ac2e9767341a9ebf354e33b173

Hey naumanyousuf , I think ur virtualization in BIOS is disable . To enable follow given below link 👍 :
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-enable-virtualization-vt-x-in-windows-10-bios/