Exiting due to GUEST_PROVISION: Failed to start host: creating host: create: creating: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds

[obaidomer]

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. installation of minikube on MacOS
2. run minikube start
3. below output is thrown back.

MacOS has both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox - both give similar exception.

Full output of failed command:

Full output of minikube start command used, if not already included:

minikube start
😄 minikube v1.13.1 on Darwin 11.0
✨ Automatically selected the vmwarefusion driver
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
❗ The vmwarefusion driver is deprecated and support for it will be removed in a future release.
Please consider switching to the new vmware unified driver, which is intended to replace the vmwarefusion driver.
See https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/vmware/ for more information.
To disable this message, run [minikube config set ShowDriverDeprecationNotification false]
🔥 Creating vmwarefusion VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🔥 Deleting "minikube" in vmwarefusion ...
🤦 StartHost failed, but will try again: creating host: create: creating: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds, aborting
❗ The vmwarefusion driver is deprecated and support for it will be removed in a future release.
Please consider switching to the new vmware unified driver, which is intended to replace the vmwarefusion driver.
See https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/vmware/ for more information.
To disable this message, run [minikube config set ShowDriverDeprecationNotification false]
🔥 Creating vmwarefusion VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
😿 Failed to start vmwarefusion VM. Running "minikube delete" may fix it: creating host: create: creating: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds, aborting

❌ Exiting due to GUEST_PROVISION: Failed to start host: creating host: create: creating: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds, aborting

😿 If the above advice does not help, please let us know:
👉 https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose

Optional: Full output of minikube logs command:

[sharifelgamal]

Yeah the vmwarefusion driver is no longer supported at all, I'd suggest trying the vmware driver instead.

[obaidomer]

Yeah the vmwarefusion driver is no longer supported at all, I'd suggest trying the vmware driver instead.

Please share the link/steps to do so on Mac.

[priyawadhwa]

Hey @obaidomer our documentation website: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/

Info on the vmware driver can be found here: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/vmware/

[priyawadhwa]

Please let us know if this resolves your issue.

[obaidomer]

Hi @priyawadhwa, Thank you for the documentation,

the same error occurred. For now, I have created individual VM's and moved on.

here are the logs.

minikube start --driver=vmware
😄 minikube v1.13.1 on Darwin 11.0
✨ Using the vmware driver based on user configuration
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
🔥 Creating vmware VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🔥 Deleting "minikube" in vmware ...
🤦 StartHost failed, but will try again: creating host: create: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds, aborting
🔥 Creating vmware VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
😿 Failed to start vmware VM. Running "minikube delete" may fix it: creating host: create: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds, aborting

❌ Exiting due to DRV_NO_IP: Failed to start host: creating host: create: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds, aborting
💡 Suggestion: Check your firewall rules for interference, and run 'virt-host-validate' to check for KVM configuration issues. If you are running minikube within a VM, consider using --driver=none
📘 Documentation: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/kvm2/
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