By Alina
I try to create a virtualbox using docker machine:
sudo docker-machine create --driver virtualbox default
and get this error:
Error with pre-create check: "VBoxManage not found. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path"
VirtualBox is installed and I use it often.
> which VirtualBox
/usr/bin/VirtualBox
PATH variable contains /usr/bin
I have reinstalled both VirtualBox and Docker several times but it did not help.
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Hello,
I would recommend taking a look at this reported Docker issue here:
https://github.com/docker/machine/issues/4590
The suggested fix is the following:
I had the same issue on 18.04, and here were the steps I took to resolve it.
- Reinstalled virtualbox
- Renamed VBoxManage to match the casing
- Followed this guide to reinstall Docker Machine.
- Reinstalled bash completion scripts in etc/bash_completion.d/
sudo docker-machine create --driver virtualbox default
Regards, Bobby
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