minishift: User In Hyper-V Administrators group check fails on Windows due to localization of group name.

I want to launch minishift local on windows 10 with hyper-v. my local user is part of the hyper-v admin group. i get an error " Checking if user is a member of the Hyper-V Administrators group … FAIL" running minishift start as a local user and as an administrator.

([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole('Hyper-V Administrators')

False

I have added the user to the hyper-v group.

The problem was fixed after I installed the lates cullumaltive update (oktober) by microsoft. After that the check returned true.

Minioshift Version is 1.7.0

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Created 7 years ago
Comments: 20 (10 by maintainers)

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Remember that preflight checks can all be individually disabled. For the HyperV check you can use:

minishift config set skip-check-hyperv-driver true

If you prefer the check to happen, but not fail startup, you can use the warn option instead:

minishift config set warn-check-hyperv-driver true

gbraad on Oct 11, 2017

I was facing same issue despite adding user into hyper v administrator group. It work after applying universal solution (Restarting computer). 💯

usman2x on Jul 11, 2019

According to the instructions after adding your user to admin group you should log out and login again.

ccronemberger on Jul 24, 2020

@gbraad works for me.

hygl on Oct 17, 2017