Fixing some problems starting Minikube with VirtualBox on Mac

Minikube is a desktop tool that can help to run Kubernetes in your local environment, and it supports many Operating Systems like Windows, Linux, and MacOS. To run Minikube, you need a hypervisor driver, which you have many options as seen here:

Drivers

One easy way to run Minikube is by using Oracle VirtualBox, which is free. However, there are some problems that you can encounter when you run Minikube with VirtualBox on Mac, so I will use this blog to address two common problems.

1. Error: StartHost failed, but will try again: creating host: create: creating: Error setting up host only network on machine start: The host-only adapter we just created is not visible. This is a well known VirtualBox bug. You might want to uninstall it and reinstall at least version 5.0.12 that is is supposed to fix this issue

You get an error “The host-only adapter we just created is not visible”