Error installing hyperkit on HomeBrew in M1 Silicon

Question

I'm trying to install hyperkit on MacOS 12.1 M1 Silicon and I get the following error.

 % brew install hyperkit
    Error: hyperkit: no bottle available!
    You can try to install from source with:
      brew install --build-from-source hyperkit
    Please note building from source is unsupported. You will encounter build
    failures with some formulae. If you experience any issues please create pull
    requests instead of asking for help on Homebrew's GitHub, Twitter or any other
    official channels.

With some research I found an incompatibility with M1 Silicon processors M1 Compatibility Issue.

Is there a workaround for this?

I want to setup minishift on M1 Silicon and Hyperkit is a pre-requisite on MacOS.

Answer 1

M1 chip doesn't support hyperkit. Tried virtualization using Kind.

Answer 2

Apparently hyperkit is not available for mac m1/m2. ARM chips.

So, I used qemu.

Install qemu using:

brew install qemu

Run

minikube start --driver=qemu

Answer 3

I don't know about minishift, but for minikube, qemu works fine

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/qemu/

Answer 4

First do this brew install --cask xcodes then do a brew install minikube