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Add Documentation on setting up minikube with Hyper-V & Virtualbox on Windows #4846

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blueelvis opened this issue Jul 23, 2019 · 4 comments
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kind/documentation Categorizes issue or PR as related to documentation. os/windows priority/important-soon Must be staffed and worked on either currently, or very soon, ideally in time for the next release.

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blueelvis commented Jul 23, 2019

Quite a lot of people who are on Windows are facing issues while trying to run minikube. As of now, the documentation we have on the website doesn't include any initial setup which is required to setup minikube with Hyper-V & Virtualbox.

Relates with #4783

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@blueelvis blueelvis changed the title Add Documentation on setting up minikube with Hyper-V Add Documentation on setting up minikube with Hyper-V & Virtualbox on Windows Jul 23, 2019
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afbjorklund commented Jul 23, 2019

I think this is related to the current phrasing on the github web site:

For the impatient, here is the TL;DR:

macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
Requires installing a hypervisor, such as hyperkit (recommended) or VirtualBox

Windows 10
Requires a hypervisor, such as VirtualBox (recommended) or HyperV

Linux
Requires either the kvm2 driver (recommended), or VirtualBox

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minikube start defaults to virtualbox, but supports other drivers using the --vm-driver argument:

  • virtualbox - Recommended Windows driver

Other drivers which are not yet part of our continuous integration system are:

  • hyperv

That is: if the hyperv driver is "good enough" we should recommend it.

Not that doing so actually helps anything (see kvm2), but as a start ?

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Yea, I would use the default built in Hyper-V virtualization at least starting from Windows 10. Going forward, we can move from virtualbox to hyperv as the default over time.

Meanwhile, I will work on the documentation and update over here.

@tstromberg tstromberg added the priority/important-soon Must be staffed and worked on either currently, or very soon, ideally in time for the next release. label Aug 8, 2019
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Does https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/windows/ sufficiently address this issue?

  • If not - let's adjust the issue title
  • If the docs look good, let's close this.

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@tstromberg - Yep, this looks good I guess. In case any changes are required, we can take care of it in another issue.

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