Starting Minishift VM ..... FAIL E1210 : "This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory"

Question

I was trying to install minishift on my local laptop. I was following the below said steps as part of the process.

https://docs.okd.io/3.11/minishift/getting-started/preparing-to-install.html

1. Set up your virtualization environment
2. Download Minishift software for your operating system from the Minishift Releases page
3. Install Minishift
4. Start Minishift
5. Configure Minishift so you can use it efficiently

I did install VirtualBox (6.1.16) as part of virtualization. And disabled the Hyper-v and Windows Hypervisor platform (Windows Program Features on/off). But after downloading and installing minishift by configuring it under PATH environment variable. I run the the below command - minishift start from command prompt.

-- Starting profile 'minishift'
-- Check if deprecated options are used ... OK
-- Checking if https://github.com is reachable ... OK
-- Checking if requested OpenShift version 'v3.11.0' is valid ... OK
-- Checking if requested OpenShift version 'v3.11.0' is supported ... OK
-- Checking if requested hypervisor 'virtualbox' is supported on this platform ... OK
-- Checking if VirtualBox is installed ... OK
-- Checking the ISO URL ... OK
-- Checking if provided oc flags are supported ... OK
-- Starting the OpenShift cluster using 'virtualbox' hypervisor ...
-- Minishift VM will be configured with ...
   Memory:    4 GB
   vCPUs :    2
   Disk size: 20 GB
-- Starting Minishift VM ..... FAIL E1210 00:01:26.829916    9000 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"

I verified the BIOS Setup for VT-x/AMD-v, and it is enabled already, so I am wondering why it is still throwing this error -

This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory

Answer 1

I used this commands cdk-scripts to verify that machine is capable of virtualization before running minishift on it. Should work for win 10 and 7.

Feel free to check the commands out on your machine. You will need powershell for that purpose.

Answer 2

To answer to my question here -

I uninstalled the existing virtual box and managed to run the minishift from windows hypervisor option (Hyper-v Manager). I adjusted my application processes (to control RAM usage) and launched minshift successfully using available 4GB RAM (out of total 8 GB in my machine).