Installing Minishift on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • It is not possible to start Minishift on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine running on Microsoft Azure.
$ minishift start
-- Starting profile 'minishift'
-- Check if deprecated options are used ... OK
-- Checking if https://github.com is reachable ... OK
-- Checking if requested OpenShift version 'v3.11.0' is valid ... OK
-- Checking if requested OpenShift version 'v3.11.0' is supported ... OK
-- Checking if requested hypervisor 'kvm' is supported on this platform ... OK
-- Checking if KVM driver is installed ... FAIL
   See the 'Setting Up the Virtualization Environment' topic (https://docs.okd.io/latest/minishift/getting-started/setting-up-virtualization-environment.html) for more information

Environment

  • A virtual machine on Microsoft Azure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux v7.7
  • Minishift v1.34.2

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