How to fix VM issue with minikube start ?

Figured out the issue. VirtualBox was not installed correctly as Mac had blocked it. It wasn't obvious at first.

• Restarting won't work if VirtualBox isn't installed correctly.

• System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Allow -> Then allow the software corporation (in this case Oracle)

• Restart

Now it worked as expected.

Have you tried restarting your computer after installing the VirtualBox ? (seems to be also a known bug to docker-machine which is used by minikube to initialize you local env)

This definitely worked for me, starting minikube by specifying vm-driver and kubernetes-version

minikube start --vm-driver=hyperkit --kubernetes-version v1.16.0