Minikube cluster creation failure on Podman Desktop

[xbabalov]

What Happened?

When trying to create a Minikube cluster in Resources in Podman Desktop, I get a following error even while having a rootful podman machine running.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Podman Desktop
2. Install and initialize Podman with rootful machine
3. Install Minikube
4. Try to create a Minikube cluster

Screenshot:

Error:
Error: Failed to create minikube cluster. E0125 05:58:08.614734 408 cache.go:189] Error downloading kic artifacts: not yet implemented, see issue #8426 ! StartHost failed, but will try again: driver start: start: podman start minikube: exit status 125 stdout: stderr: Error: no container with name or ID "minikube" found: no such container * Failed to start podman container. Running "minikube delete" may fix it: driver start: start: podman start minikube: exit status 125 stdout: stderr: Error: no container with name or ID "minikube" found: no such container X Exiting due to GUEST_PROVISION: error provisioning guest: Failed to start host: driver start: start: podman start minikube: exit status 125 stdout: stderr: Error: no container with name or ID "minikube" found: no such container * ╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ │ │ * If the above advice does not help, please let us know: │ │ https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose │ │ │ │ * Please run minikube logs --file=logs.txt and attach logs.txt to the GitHub issue. │ │ │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Attach the log file

minikube_logs_12188603c5e9f28dcb94d82bb148706dd9bd0495_0.log

Operating System

Windows

Driver

Podman

[ismaelhamed]

Same here

[wfschneider]

This was working for me last week but since I restarted my Mac I can no longer start minikube with podman.

[bobsira]

I am getting the following error when I run this on a windows machine: Error: Failed to create minikube cluster. * Exiting due to PROVIDER_PODMAN_NOT_FOUND: The 'podman' provider was not found: exec: "podman": executable file not found in %PATH% * Suggestion: Install Podman * Documentation: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/podman/

However spinning up a cluster from the command line using this command: minikube start --driver=podman --container-runtime=cri-o is a successful.

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[alexnelsone]

For anyone who may be coming here that is experiencing this issue on an M series Mac and podman. Running the following may clear up the issue with Error: no container with name or ID "minikube" found: no such container:

1. minikube delete
2. minikube config set rootless true
3. minikube start --driver=podman --container-runtime=cri-o

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[odockal]

Still seeing the issue as of today.