'HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)

[jfekete1]

The exact command to reproduce the issue:
minicube-windows-amd64.exe start

The full output of the command that failed:

C:\Kubernetes>minikube-windows-amd64.exe start

• minikube v1.5.2 on Microsoft Windows 10 Home 10.0.18362 Build 18362
• Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
• Retriable failure: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component ConsoleWrap, interface IConsole

Details: 00:00:01.705810 Power up failed (vrc=VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND, rc=E_FAIL (0X80004005))

• Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...
• Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
• Retriable failure: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component ConsoleWrap, interface IConsole

Details: 00:00:01.671035 Power up failed (vrc=VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND, rc=E_FAIL (0X80004005))

• Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...
• Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
• Retriable failure: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component ConsoleWrap, interface IConsole

Details: 00:00:01.679415 Power up failed (vrc=VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND, rc=E_FAIL (0X80004005))

• Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...
• Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
• Retriable failure: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)
  VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component ConsoleWrap, interface IConsole

Details: 00:00:01.664947 Power up failed (vrc=VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND, rc=E_FAIL (0X80004005))

• Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...

X Unable to start VM: create: creating: Unable to start the VM: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm minikube --type headless failed:
VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).
VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component ConsoleWrap, interface IConsole

Details: 00:00:01.664947 Power up failed (vrc=VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND, rc=E_FAIL (0X80004005))
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C:\Kubernetes>

The output of the minikube logs command:

The operating system version:

[tstromberg]

This appears to be a VirtualBox bug: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14832

What version of VirtualBox are you on? If you have not tried yet, I suggest upgrading to VirtualBox 6.1.

Some related articles I found:

• https://caffinc.github.io/2015/11/fix-vbox-network/
• https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=68590&start=450#p345379

[priyawadhwa]

Hey @jfekete1 did upgrading VirtualBox solve your issue?

[TobEnd]

Had the same Issue. Upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1 solved it for me.

[tstromberg]

I'm closing this issue as it hasn't seen activity in awhile, and it's unclear if this issue still exists. If this issue does continue to exist in the most recent release of minikube, please feel free to re-open it.

Thank you for opening the issue!

[juhao5208]

i had the same problem
i can start-up a kubernetes cluster successful befor update system
but i update system to 20H2 yesterday,now it cannot work when i use "minikube start"
do you slove this problem?thanks

[AskAlice]

@tstromberg can you open this again? I get this intermittently and it requires a reboot whenever I get it. Even then it only succeeds sometimes.

It only started after I updated to the Windows 10 Insider dev builds to test nested virtualization in WSL2, but I've since switched back to WSL1 so I could get virtualbox running.

i have to run minikube v1.6.2 to run an older kubernetes version

minikube version
minikube version: v1.6.2
commit: 54f28ac5d3a815d1196cd5d57d707439ee4bb392