Minikube: Error when starting minikube on the Mac with the hyperkit driver

[parhamdoustdar]

The following is a bug.

Environment:

Minikube version (use minikube version): v0.24.1

• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): Darwin x86_64
• VM Driver (e.g. cat ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/config.json | grep DriverName): hyperkit
• ISO version (e.g. cat ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/config.json | grep -i ISO or minikube ssh cat /etc/VERSION): minikube-v0.23.6.iso

What happened: When running minikube start --vm-driver=hyperkit, I get an error saying:

E0115 15:29:12.531514 44736 start.go:156] Error starting host: Error creating host: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: making disk image: truncate /Users/pdoustdar/.minikube/machines/minikube/minikube.rawdisk: no space left on device

What you expected to happen: I expected the machine to be created and provisioned successfully.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

1. install the specified software versions.
2. Run minikube start --vm-driver=hyperkit.

[msogrin]

no space left on device

@parhamdoustdar can you verify how much free disk space you have?

[parhamdoustdar]

Yes, sure!

I have 28.9 GB free.

[msogrin]

I think minikube attempts to reserve 64 GB of disk, so 28.9 GB free might indeed cause the "no space left on device" error.

Can you try running minikube start --vm-driver=hyperkit --disk-size=10g? (choose a number that's less than 28.9 GB here)

[parhamdoustdar]

Thanks, that worked. I thought the error was not talking about my actual disk, and talking about the VM disk.

Thanks a lot for the quick replies.

[alanjds]

Would be nice to have a more descriptive error message, saying "Cannot allocate a 64 disk".