crc: Can't install on Windows 10. Stuck on 'Please reboot your system and run 'crc setup' to complete the setup process'

CRC version: 2.6.0+e7251680 OpenShift version: 4.10.22 Podman version: 4.1.0

Windows Build: 21H2 (Build 19044.1826)

After rebooting, I get the installer, after entering the pull secret I get an error without any more details than “reboot again”. This repeatedly happens on reboot.

2022-08-02 15_08_44-Red Hat OpenShift Local

Running crc setup from admin powershell after reboot also does not change anything.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments: 19 (10 by maintainers)

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I got a similar issue and I found out that crc using the USERNAME env variable to resolve the Group membership. In my case I got a domain user but USERNAME only contains the USER part and the domain was in a USERDOMAIN env variable. After setting the env variable USERNAME=%USERDOMAIN%%USERNAME% before starting crc setup and crc start, this solved my problem: crc found the hyper-v group membership and all went well.

I had the same issue, the domain name was not taken into account in the pre-flight check, but the user is indeed correctly in the group membership. I could solve it by bypassing the pre-flight check: crc config set skip-check-user-in-crc-users-and-hyperv-admins-group true

vtarin on Mar 9, 2023