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Deprecated VirtualBox with warning
divysinghvi Sep 24, 2025
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Removed Hardcoded Driver message and use SupportedDrivers()function i…
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15 changes: 6 additions & 9 deletions cmd/minikube/cmd/start.go
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Expand Up @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ func provisionWithDriver(cmd *cobra.Command, ds registry.DriverState, existing *
klog.Errorf("Error autoSetOptions : %v", err)
}

virtualBoxMacOS13PlusWarning(driverName)
virtualBoxDeprecationWarning(driverName)
hyperkitDeprecationWarning(driverName)
validateFlags(cmd, driverName)
validateUser(driverName)
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}, nil
}

func virtualBoxMacOS13PlusWarning(driverName string) {
if !driver.IsVirtualBox(driverName) || !detect.MacOS13Plus() {
// virtualBoxDeprecationWarning prints a deprecation warning for the virtualbox driver
func virtualBoxDeprecationWarning(driverName string) {
if !driver.IsVirtualBox(driverName) {
return
}
out.WarningT(`Due to changes in macOS 13+ minikube doesn't currently support VirtualBox. You can use alternative drivers such as 'vfkit', 'qemu', or 'docker'.
https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/vfkit/
https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/qemu/
https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/docker/
For more details on the issue see: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/15274
`)
out.WarningT(`The 'virtualbox' driver is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
You can use alternative drivers: {{.drivers}}.`, out.V{"drivers": strings.Join(driver.SupportedDrivers(), ", ")})
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Why did you remove this? please keep the links to the docs. This make it very easy to find more info by clicking on the link in the shell, and it is not required for this change.

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// hyperkitDeprecationWarning prints a deprecation warning for the hyperkit driver
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion pkg/minikube/registry/drvs/virtualbox/virtualbox.go
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Expand Up @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func init() {
Config: configure,
Status: status,
Default: true,
Priority: registry.Fallback,
Priority: registry.Deprecated,
Init: func() drivers.Driver { return virtualbox.NewDriver("", "") },
})
if err != nil {
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