The brew install was easy, but starting minikube gave an error that Virtualbox was not found, this is the default driver that is used by minikube. I wanted to see if Minikube on the M1 could be easily set up. Looking back I should have just used Rancher Desktop to run an etcd cluster locally, but I remembered Minikube had etcd installed automatically. Rancher Desktop was working fine, but I needed an etcd node integrated with Kubernetes for a little programming project I have going on. Knowing that the processor architecture changed from Intel (x86) to ARM (M1), after a year things should certainly have been ironed out… right?Īfter checking I found out that some tools didn’t work, like VirtualBox but there are often others that do work without issues.Īfter installing Rancher desktop on the m1 I ran into an issue that /usr/local/bin was not created and ownership was not set to my user, this was easy to resolve by the solution below. The new Macbook M1 Pro had raving reviews, super performance, and long battery life. To get up and running quickly I decided to stick with technology that I knew before, hardware I have used for the past 8 years without breaking down has been Apple MacBook Pro’s. I would tell my students not to bother spending $40 for parallels unless they have AT LEAST 8 gig of memory, less than that it is just wouldn't be worth the price.This year I started my own company: 0to1. The only good news there is really is that there is a 50% discount for students for the basic version of parallels, point the student to this page for all the details:Īs a final note I will say that the minimum recommended specifications for Parallels is quite low and I would expect most users with that bottom of the line computer to have a very unsatisfactory experience.

Of course the instructions for doing this are all for virtualbox and so many exact details on installation and running of the windows machine will differ slightly with parallels. The best solution at this time is recommend to the student to buy parallels, which is akin to VirtualBox in that it will allow installation and running of Windows Virtual machines. I also suspect this is going to be more and more of a problem as Apple moves more and more of their computers to the M1 chips. cheap and easy) solutions at this time to getting students access to DNA Master with the newer M1 hardware.

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