Launching Minikube as normal User on Windows 10

2/20/2020

I'm trying to run minikube with hyperv without open an Administrator powershell. Is there any way? I'm doing this:

choco install minikube
minikube.exe start --vm-driver "hyperv"

If I try to launch minikube start from a normal powershell it gives me this message:

X hyperv does not appear to be installed
-- Manuel Castro
hyper-v
kubernetes
minikube
windows-10

2 Answers

2/21/2020

This issue occurs when you didn't install Hyper-V or it wasn't installed properly due to Windows updates or some environment issues. You can check if Hyper-V works properly if you will execute systeminfo. More info in Minikube docs. There are many ways to install Hyper-V. Easiest one is to install via Turn Windows features on or off, it's mentioned in this article as Solution 7. If it wouldn't help you can try others.

After proper installation of Hyper-V you need to install Docker for windows, Minikube and Kubectl. I've already created mini tutorial here. You can also check this tutorial about Minikube on Windows. As additional information, I am not using admin rights.

-- PjoterS
Source: StackOverflow

2/24/2020

Minikube works only with elevated rights on Windows https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/6585#issuecomment-585269831

-- Thomas Deville-Duc
Source: StackOverflow