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I'm trying to scale my docker containers with Minikube on Windows 10 Enterprise Edition. However, I'm running into a few conflicts with Hyper-V and VirtualBox. I know Dockers require Hyper-V to run properly while Minikube requires VirtualBox to run (shows an error if Hyper-V is enabled)
C:\WINDOWS\system32>minikube start
Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
Downloading Minikube ISO
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E0822 11:42:07.898412 13028 start.go:174] Error starting host: Error
creating host: Error executing step: Running precreate checks.
: This computer is running Hyper-V. VirtualBox won't boot a 64bits VM when
Hyper-V is activated. Either use Hyper-V as a driver, or disable the Hyper-V
hypervisor. (To skip this check, use --virtualbox-no-vtx-check).
If I disable, Hyper-V, I'm able to start minikube properly but Dockers does not work and shows an error to enable Hyper-V.
I also tried running minikube with Hyper-V driver, but also get this error:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>minikube start --vm-driver hyperv
Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
E0822 11:44:32.323877 13120 start.go:174] Error starting host: Error
creating host: Error executing step: Running precreate checks.
: no External vswitch found. A valid vswitch must be available for this
command to run. Check https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/hyper-v/.
Any solution to this?
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You can work on Minikube even without installing VirtualBox. Minikube also supports a --driver=none option that runs the Kubernetes components on the host and not in a VM. Using this driver requires Docker and a Linux environment but not a hypervisor. If you're using the none driver in Debian or a derivative, use the .
Minikube depends on a container or a virtual machine manager to deploy a Kubernetes cluster. Some of the virtual machine managers it supports are Docker, Hyper kit, Hyper-V, KVM, Parallels, Podman, VirtualBox, and VMWare. Since we are using a Windows environment, we can simply use the inbuilt Hyper-V virtualization.
minikube can be deployed as a VM, a container, or bare-metal.
I also tried running minikube with Hyper-V driver, but also get this error:
There is an explicit warning about that HyperV and vswitch situation in their docs: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/v0.28.2/docs/drivers.md#hyperv-driver
Although in minikube's defense, it also does say right at the end the URL one should go to in order to read about the --hyperv-virtual-switch flag one should provide in addition to --vm-driver=hyperv.
Navigating to that linked docker page, it even provides a step-by-step with screenshots example of how to accomplish that.
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