Not able to run Minikube using Podman

[Reehansz]

What Happened?

I was trying to install Minikube in Mac M3 arm, when trying to install it using "Minikube start --driver Podman", I was not able to install it due the below error

Attach the log file

❌ Exiting due to GUEST_STATUS: Unable to get control-plane node minikube host status: state: unknown state "minikube": podman container inspect minikube --format={{.State.Status}}: exit status 125
stdout:

stderr:
Error: no such container "minikube"

Operating System

macOS (Default)

Driver

Podman

[mahmut-Abi]

what is your podman version?

[Reehansz]

podman version 5.3.2

[dhairya-seth]

I had also faced the same issue when starting minikube using Podman driver. To start minikube i had to reset the minikube configurations and restarted it using Docker driver. It was working properly using docker.

[dhairya-seth]

If (in case) you want to run minikube using docker, you can follow the steps mentioned below, which worked for me:

1. If you executed these commands: minikube config set driver podman and minikube config set rootless true in past while setting up podman then you need to unset it using minikube config unset driver and minikube config unset rootless.
2. Install docker (if not installed) and ensure docker engine is in running state.
3. Then start minikube using minikube start --driver=docker
4. If you still get error then run minikube delete and again start minikube.

[dhairya-seth]

/kind support