vmware

Overview

The vmware driver supports virtualization across all VMware based hypervisors.

Requirements

• VMware Fusion

Driver Installation

If the Brew Package Manager is installed, run:

brew install docker-machine-driver-vmware

Otherwise:

r=https://api.github.com/repos/machine-drivers/docker-machine-driver-vmware
curl -LO $(curl -s $r/releases/latest | grep -o 'http.*darwin_amd64' | head -n1) \
 && install docker-machine-driver-vmware_darwin_amd64 \
  /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-vmware

Usage

Start a cluster using the vmware driver:

minikube start --driver=vmware

To make vmware the default driver:

minikube config set driver vmware

vmware_windows_usage.inc

No documentation is available yet.

Requirements

*VMware Workstation

Driver Installation

First install the VMware Workstation

After installation, start a cluster using the vmware driver:

minikube start --driver vmware

Issues

• Full list of open ‘vmware-driver’ issues

Troubleshooting

• Run minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7 to debug crashes

Last modified December 12, 2020: Update vmware.md (da1ffdd8f)