Minikube Setup Issue on macOS (Apple Silicon) with VirtualBox

[piyush8358]

I tried setting up Minikube and installed VirtualBox on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip. However, when I run minikube start, I get the following error:

piyush~$ minikube start  
😄  minikube v1.35.0 on Darwin 15.3.1 (arm64)  
✨  Automatically selected the virtualbox driver  

❌  Exiting due to DRV_UNSUPPORTED_OS: The driver 'virtualbox' is not supported on darwin/arm64  

I'm not sure why this is happening. Any suggestions?

Attach the log file

piyush~$minikube logs --file=log.txt
🤷 Profile "minikube" not found. Run "minikube profile list" to view all profiles.
👉 To start a cluster, run: "minikube start"

Operating System

macOS (Default)

Driver

VirtualBox

[afbjorklund]

• VirtualBox driver unsupported on macOS (Apple Silicon) with minikube: Expected behavior or bug? #20468

[piyush8358]

It seems like VirtualBox is not supported on Apple Silicon. What should I do now? Can you help me download and set up Minikube properly?

[afbjorklund]

You can choose another driver, until VirtualBox (on darwin/arm64) is supported by minikube.

[nirs]

This is a bug:

Automatically selected the virtualbox driver

Minikube should not select unsupported driver. If no supported driver is available (qemu, vfkit) it should suggest to install one of the supported drivers.

[dhairya-seth]

Can you help me download and set up Minikube properly?

If VirtualBox is not supported, you can also use Docker driver.You can follow the steps given in the official Minikube documentation carefully to setup minikube properly.