Drivers

Configuring various minikube drivers

minikube can be deployed as a VM, a container, or bare-metal.

To do so, we use the Docker Machine library to provide a consistent way to interact with different environments. Here is what’s supported:

Linux

• Docker - container-based (preferred)
• KVM2 - VM-based (preferred)
• VirtualBox - VM
• None - bare-metal
• Podman - container (experimental)
• SSH - remote ssh

macOS

• Docker - VM + Container (preferred)
• Hyperkit - VM
• VirtualBox - VM
• Parallels - VM
• VMware - VM
• SSH - remote ssh

Windows

• Hyper-V - VM (preferred)
• Docker - VM + Container (preferred)
• VirtualBox - VM
• VMware - VM
• SSH - remote ssh

Last modified May 14, 2021: Add VMware as a provider for Linux & Windows (886a5d6b9)