<p>I installed <code>minikube</code> and <code>Virtualbox</code> on OS X and was working fine until I executed</p>
<p><code>minikube delete</code></p>
<p>After that I tried</p>
<p><code>minikube start</code></p>
<p>and got the following</p>
<blockquote>
<p>😄  minikube v1.5.2 on Darwin 10.15.1</p>
<p>✨  Automatically selected the 'hyperkit' driver (alternates: [virtualbox])</p>
<p>🔑  The 'hyperkit' driver requires elevated permissions. The following commands will be executed:</p>
<p>...</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I do not want to use a different driver, why is this happening? I reinstalled minikube but the problem persisted. I could set which driver to use with:</p>
<p><code>minikube start --vm-driver=virtualbox</code></p>
<p>But I would rather have the default behavior after a fresh install. How can I set the default driver?</p>

lloiacono
<p>After googling a bit I found how to do it <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/637" rel="noreferrer">here</a></p>

<p><code>minikube config set vm-driver virtualbox</code></p>

<p>This command output is</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>⚠️  These changes will take effect upon a minikube delete and then a minikube start</p>
</blockquote>

<p>So make sure to run </p>

<p><code>minikube delete</code></p>

<p>and </p>

<p><code>minikube start</code></p>
