Unable to start minikube in macOS sonoma

Kubernetes
#1

Dear Community experts,

while executing command : minikube start

Getting below error “:x: Exiting due to DRV_UNSUPPORTED_OS: The driver ‘virtualbox’ is not supported on darwin/arm64”

#2

You cannot use VirtualBox with Apple Silicon Macs. Uninstall minikube and VirtualBox, then reinstall Minikube by following the instructions here, and ensure to select macOS and ARM64.

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#3

Thanks a lot for your support.

#4

I assume you got it to work since you marked my answer as solution.

Although Oracle tried to make VirtualBox work with Apple Silicon, they kind of gave up on that and currently there is no likelihood it will.

#5

I faced the same issue, and could not use the default Minikube installation instructions without having to use docker for the setup.
Is there an alternative hypervisor available for mac?

#6

My personal setup for minikube looks something like this:

 minikube start --driver vfkit --memory 4G

vfkit is a newer driver for minikube on MacOS, and I find it works well, is simple to set up with homebrew, and does networking well.