<p>I'm attempting to run Minikube in a VMWare Workstation guest, running Ubuntu 18.04.</p>

<p><code>kubectl version</code> results in:</p>

<p><code>Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"12", GitVersion:"v1.12.0", GitCommit:"0ed33881dc4355495f623c6f22e7dd0b7632b7c0", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-09-27T17:05:32Z", GoVersion:"go1.10.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
</code></p>

<p><code>minikube version</code> results in:</p>

<pre><code>minikube version: v0.29.0
</code></pre>

<p>I have enabled Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI on the VMWare guest configuration. I have 25GB of hard drive space. Yet, regardless of how I attempt to start Minikube, I get the following error:</p>

<pre><code>Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
E1005 11:02:32.495579    5913 start.go:168] Error starting host: Error creating host: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: Error creating VM: virError(Code=1, Domain=10, Message='internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: 2018-10-05T09:02:29.926633Z qemu-system-x86_64: error: failed to set MSR 0x38d to 0x0
qemu-system-x86_64: /build/qemu-11gcu0/qemu-2.11+dfsg/target/i386/kvm.c:1807: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu-&gt;kvm_msr_buf-&gt;nmsrs' failed.').

 Retrying.
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<p>Commands I've tried:</p>

<pre><code>minikube start --vm-driver=kvm2

minikube start --vm-driver=kvm

minikube start --vm-driver=none
</code></pre>

<p>All result in the same thing.</p>

<p>I notice that on the Ubuntu guest, the network will shortly disconnect and re-connect when I run <code>minikube start</code>. Is it a problem with the network driver? How would I debug this?</p>

<p>I observed a similar issue on Ubuntu 18.04.1 VM (Intel), the solution I found is:</p>

<ol>
<li>Run this from the console:</li>
</ol>

<pre><code>$ sudo cat &gt; /etc/modprobe.d/qemu-system-x86.conf &lt;&lt; EOF
options kvm_intel nested=1 enable_apicv=n
options kvm ignore_msrs=1
EOF
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<ol start="2">
<li>Reboot the VM</li>
</ol>
