starting minikube on arm64 Mac with Parallels

[umeshch1]

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1.❯ minikube start
😄 minikube v1.19.0 on Darwin 11.2.3 (arm64)
✨ Automatically selected the parallels driver

❌ Exiting due to DRV_UNSUPPORTED_OS: The driver 'parallels' is not supported on darwin/arm64
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Full output of failed command:

❯ minikube start --driver=parallels

😄 minikube v1.19.0 on Darwin 11.2.3 (arm64)
✨ Using the parallels driver based on user configuration

❌ Exiting due to DRV_UNSUPPORTED_OS: The driver 'parallels' is not supported on darwin/arm64

Full output of minikube start command used, if not already included:

Optional: Full output of minikube logs command:

After installing minikube on M1 MacBook Air through homebrew, started using above command. Getting error for the drivers parallels. I have parallels installed as evaluation.

Installation logs:
❯ brew install minikube
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/minikube/manifests/1.19.0
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/minikube/blobs/sha256:8704e50e9352938
==> Downloading from https://pkg-containers-az.githubusercontent.com/ghcr1/blobs/sha25
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring minikube--1.19.0.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
zsh completions have been installed to:
/opt/homebrew/share/zsh/site-functions
==> Summary
🍺 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/minikube/1.19.0: 8 files, 58.8MB

[afbjorklund]

Is docker-machine-driver-parallels available for arm64 ? If so, the "support" list needs updating...

// supportedDrivers is a list of supported drivers on Darwin.
var supportedDrivers []string = func() []string {
        if runtime.GOARCH == "arm64" {
                // on darwin/arm64 only docker and ssh are supported yet
                return []string{
                        Docker,
                        SSH,
                }
        }
        return []string{
                VirtualBox,
                Parallels,
                VMwareFusion,
                HyperKit,
                VMware,
                Docker,
                SSH,
        }
}()

See Parallels/docker-machine-parallels#99

[afbjorklund]

This also needs an ISO to be available for arm64, but that is something that is planned.

You should be able to start an Ubuntu VM with Parallels, and then use the SSH driver ?

---

If Parallels supports Vagrant (as a provider) you could use that with the Vagrantfile (#10089 (comment))

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/focal64"

  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.50.4"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.cpus = 2
    vb.memory = "2048"

    # focal64 bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1829625
    vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "file", File::NULL ]
  end

  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
    apt-get update
    apt-get install -y conntrack 
  SHELL
end

EDIT: Apparently, you need to use "bento/ubuntu-20.04" for provider "parallels"

• https://app.vagrantup.com/ubuntu/boxes/focal64
• http://parallels.github.io/vagrant-parallels/docs/boxes/
• https://app.vagrantup.com/bento/boxes/ubuntu-20.04

Otherwise the regular Ubuntu LTS Server installation ISO and clicking through the wizard should work too.

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/20.04/release/ubuntu-20.04.2-live-server-arm64.iso

Currently you still have to install the container runtime and some other requirements (conntrack) yourself.

In the future, minikube is supposed to be able to provision those itself (but it is currenly broken) #10883

[ilya-zuyev]

atm, only docker driver is supported on M1

[afbjorklund]

blocked on #9228 for the minikube.iso

[afbjorklund]

We could need some help from Parallels users and developers, to support this VM driver.

There are no integration tests for VMware or Parallels, so they rely on community support...

[mprimeaux]

@afbjorklund I am on an M1 + Parallels so am happy to help. Would you mind catching me up a bit on what gaps remain?

[afbjorklund]

@mprimeaux if you can verify if this ISO works (after expanding), then we know we can use it as the base for the new:

https://github.com/afbjorklund/minimal-buildroot/releases/download/0.2/boot-arm64.iso.gz (it requires UEFI to boot)

[mprimeaux]

@afbjorklund Thanks for the gz. I created an ISO with the files and booted in Parallels. Here's what I see.