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
d=docker-machine-driver-vmware_darwin_amd64
u=$(curl -s $r/releases/latest | grep -o 'http.*Darwin_amd64.tar.gz' | head -n1)
mkdir $d \
 && (cd $d && curl -L $u > $d.tar.gz && tar -xf $d.tar.gz) \
 && install $d/docker-machine-driver-vmware /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-vmware \
 && rm -rf $d

    Usage

    Start a cluster using the vmware driver:

    minikube start --driver=vmware

    To make vmware the default driver:

    minikube config set driver vmware

    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

    Troubleshooting

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

    Last modified February 6, 2022: docs: remove vmware_windows_usage.inc from vmware driver mac section (b5d71cf8f)