minikube: Recently built minikube fails to start with vmware driver

What Happened?

Build both minikube and the amd64 ISO with recent changes and it fails to start with the vmware driver.

$ ./minikube-darwin-amd64 start --driver vmware --iso-url=file://$(pwd)/minikube-amd64.iso
😄  minikube v1.30.0 on Darwin 13.2.1
✨  Using the vmware driver based on user configuration
👍  Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
💾  Downloading Kubernetes v1.26.3 preload ...
    > preloaded-images-k8s-v18-v1...:  397.02 MiB / 397.02 MiB  100.00% 53.18 M
🔥  Creating vmware VM (CPUs=2, Memory=6000MB, Disk=20000MB) .../ ^C

From the logs this appears to be due to the docker user account being removed. Looking at commit history, it was removed via Disable plain text login for ISO by @medyagh.

Attach the log file

I0403 10:43:40.090076   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | IP found in DHCP lease table: 192.168.111.164
I0403 10:43:40.090091   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | Got an ip: 192.168.111.164
I0403 10:43:40.090737   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | Creating Tar key bundle...
I0403 10:43:40.091232   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | executing: /Users/mark/bin/vmrun -gu docker -gp tcuser directoryExistsInGuest /Users/mark/.minikube/machines/minikube/minikube.vmx /var/lib/boot2docker
- I0403 10:43:40.426605   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | Error: Invalid user name or password for the guest OS
I0403 10:43:40.429937   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | executing: /Users/mark/bin/vmrun -gu docker -gp tcuser CopyFileFromHostToGuest /Users/mark/.minikube/machines/minikube/minikube.vmx /Users/mark/.minikube/machines/minikube/userdata.tar /home/docker/userdata.tar
/ I0403 10:43:40.690751   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | Error: Invalid user name or password for the guest OS
I0403 10:43:40.694008   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | executing: /Users/mark/bin/vmrun -gu docker -gp tcuser runScriptInGuest /Users/mark/.minikube/machines/minikube/minikube.vmx /bin/sh sudo sh -c "tar xvf /home/docker/userdata.tar -C /home/docker > /var/log/userdata.log 2>&1 && chown -R docker:staff /home/docker"
\ I0403 10:43:40.954608   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | Error: Invalid user name or password for the guest OS
I0403 10:43:40.957541   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | executing: /Users/mark/bin/vmrun -gu docker -gp tcuser runScriptInGuest /Users/mark/.minikube/machines/minikube/minikube.vmx /bin/sh sudo /bin/mv /home/docker/userdata.tar /var/lib/boot2docker/userdata.tar
- I0403 10:43:41.219867   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | Error: Invalid user name or password for the guest OS
I0403 10:43:41.223214   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | executing: /Users/mark/bin/vmrun -gu docker -gp tcuser enableSharedFolders /Users/mark/.minikube/machines/minikube/minikube.vmx
/ I0403 10:43:41.497243   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | executing: /Users/mark/bin/vmrun -gu docker -gp tcuser addSharedFolder /Users/mark/.minikube/machines/minikube/minikube.vmx Users /Users
| I0403 10:43:41.777151   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | executing: /Users/mark/bin/vmrun -gu docker -gp tcuser runScriptInGuest /Users/mark/.minikube/machines/minikube/minikube.vmx /bin/sh [ ! -d /hosthome ]&& sudo mkdir /hosthome; sudo mount --bind /mnt/hgfs//hosthome /hosthome || [ -f /usr/local/bin/vmhgfs-fuse ]&& sudo /usr/local/bin/vmhgfs-fuse -o allow_other .host:/Users /hosthome || sudo mount -t vmhgfs -o uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g) .host:/Users /hosthome
- I0403 10:43:42.041025   20589 main.go:141] libmachine: (minikube) DBG | Error: Invalid user name or password for the guest OS
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### Operating System

macOS (Default)

### Driver

VMware

About this issue

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State: closed
Created a year ago
Comments: 23 (10 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Did the whole process manually, attached the disk to an existing VM, and lo and behold, it works!

# lsblk
NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
[...]
sdb       8:16   0   10G  0 disk

# dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1 count=29
boot2docker, please format-me29+0 records in
29+0 records out
29 bytes copied, 0.000151799 s, 191 kB/s

lbogdan on Jun 13, 2023

Hm, I might have found a way to create a .vmdk disk with the automounter expected format:

first, create a 1MB (that’s the minimum) preallocated disk:
```
vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s 1MB -t 2 test.vmdk
```
this creates two files, test.vmdk, containing disk metadata, and test-flat.vmdk, containing 1_048_576 (=1MB) 0 bytes, that is the raw disk data
write the tar stream to the beginning of test-flat.vmdk
convert the disk to a growable disk:
```
 vmware-vdiskmanager -r test.vmdk -t 0 test2.vmdk
```
this creates a single test2.vmdk file, containing both metadata and raw data
grow the converted disk to the desired size:
```
vmware-vdiskmanager -x 10GB test2.vmdk
```
delete test[-flat].vmdk
use test2.vmdk as the VM disk.

It’s a bit convoluted, but it should work.

lbogdan on Jun 13, 2023