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I guess that minikube needs VirtualBox because of dockers' dependencies, but my current docker version doesn't need it.
So do I still need VirtualBox or another VM to start minikube?
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Minikube runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows operating systems, selecting a virtualization manager appropriate for each operating system. You may be required to install a virtualization manager, if you do not have one already installed.
Minikube is a lightweight Kubernetes implementation that creates a VM on your local machine and deploys a simple cluster containing only one node. Minikube is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.
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.
You can run minikube in docker in docker container. It will use docker driver.
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 .deb packages for Docker rather than the snap package, which does not work with Minikube. You can download .deb packages from Docker.
You can also use --driver=docker
For more information, you can refer here
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