On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Hardy Ferentschik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > > > I was not aware that you could specify a different directory. That > must be > > > a new feature of RC2? > > No, that has been there all the time. > > > This we did for our integration test purpose to run it in a CI env. > > This is not only for integration testing. It works actually quite well. > So, per default Minishift installs and uses ~/.minishift. Using the > --minishift-home forces the setup to install into the specified directory. > This is, however, only one part of the equation. Once you have done this, > you need to make sure that at runtime (when you are executing minishift > commands), > Minishift uses this custom home directory. You do this by exporting > MINISHIFT_HOME. > See also https://docs.openshift.org/latest/minishift/using/ > managing-minishift.html#environment-variables >> When I setup the MINISHIFT_HOME env var to point to a different home directory, cdk can't start as it can't find the minishift-rhel7.iso whichi is well packaged export MINISHIFT_HOME=/Users/chmoulli/Temp/_minishift/minishift-cdk ./minishift version Minishift version: 1.0.0-rc.2 CDK Version: 3.0.0-20042017 ./minishift start Starting local OpenShift cluster using 'xhyve' hypervisor... E0424 19:08:48.486322 3339 start.go:172] Error starting the VM: Error creating the VM. Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: open /cache/iso/minishift-rhel7.iso: no such file or directory. ls -la /Users/chmoulli/Temp/_minishift/minishift-cdk/cache/iso/minishift-rhel7.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 chmoulli staff 350224384 Apr 23 12:23 /Users/chmoulli/Temp/_minishift/minishift-cdk/cache/iso/minishift-rhel7.iso > > > Bottom line, you can use Minishift community as well as the CDK with a > home directory different to ~/.minishift. > > Regarding having multiple instances, that's possible with some caveats. > I can explain more if you want to. > > --Hardy >
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