<p>I am trying to start minikube on my machine but it gives an error :</p>

<pre><code> Error: [VBOX_NOT_FOUND] create: precreate: VBoxManage not found. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path
</code></pre>

<p>When I installed VirtualBox then and tried to start minikube it says that VirtualBox and Hyper V in conflict. So what is the way to get it started?</p>

<p>Should I disable Hyper V and install VirtualBox or is there a way to use Hyper V ?</p>

user1474111
<blockquote>
  <p>Error: [VBOX_NOT_FOUND] create: precreate: VBoxManage not found. Make
  sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path</p>
</blockquote>

<p>means that <strong>Minikube</strong> tries to start using the <strong>default hypervisor</strong> which is <strong>Virtualbox</strong> (<a href="https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/03/28/running-kubernetes-locally-on-linux-with-minikube-now-with-kubernetes-1.14-support/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ref</a>) and it is looking for <code>VBoxManage</code> command in your system's <code>PATH</code> environment variable which of course is not present there if <strong>VirtualBox</strong> is not installed.</p>

<p>When you want to use a different <strong>hypervisor</strong> ( and you can do it as <strong>Minikube</strong> for <strong>Windows</strong> also supports <strong>Hyper-V</strong> ( <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ref</a> ) you need to provide additional flag to <code>minikube start</code> command, specifying the virtualization technology that you want it to use. If you want it to use <strong>Hyper-V</strong>, it should look like this:</p>

<pre><code>minikube start --vm-driver=hyperv 
</code></pre>

<p>Additionally you may want to set <code>hyper</code> as your <strong>default driver</strong>. You can do it with the following command:</p>

<pre><code>minikube config set vm-driver hyperv
</code></pre>

<p>You can also find this information <a href="https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/hyperv/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
