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Manuel Castro
Manuel Castro

Reputation: 1723

Launching Minikube as normal User on Windows 10

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

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4299

Answers (3)

Lim Sze Seong
Lim Sze Seong

Reputation: 71

To launch minikube from non-admin powershell. You need to add a non-admin user to "Hyper-V Administrators" group.

Open PowerShell with administrator right. And run below command to add current user name to "Hyper-V Administrators" group. You need to sign off and sign in to take effect.

Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Hyper-V Administrators" -Member [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Name

Upvotes: 4

Thomas Deville-Duc
Thomas Deville-Duc

Reputation: 21

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

Upvotes: 0

PjoterS
PjoterS

Reputation: 14092

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.

Upvotes: 0

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