Starting minikube with qemu, installed with Nix, on Apple Silicon.

flake.nix

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
    nix-darwin.url = "github:LnL7/nix-darwin";
    nix-darwin.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
  };

  outputs = inputs@{ self, nix-darwin, nixpkgs }:
  let
    configuration = { pkgs, ... }: {

      environment.pathsToLink = ["/share/qemu"]; # Solves issue with missing path in qemu 
      environment = {
        systemPackages = with pkgs; [
          # Local container development
          minikube
          qemu
          edk2
        ];
      };

      services.nix-daemon.enable = true;
      nix.settings.experimental-features = "nix-command flakes";

      nixpkgs = {
        hostPlatform = "aarch64-darwin";
        config.allowUnfree = true;
      };
    };
  in
  {
    # Build darwin flake using:
    # $ darwin-rebuild build --flake .#simple
    darwinConfigurations."simple" = nix-darwin.lib.darwinSystem {
      modules = [ configuration ];
    };
  };
}

minikube-start-stop.makefile

# Make sure your nix config installs minikube, qemy and edk2 as described below.
# If you are not using nix, you probably are not experiencing the same path issue this solves.
start-minikube:
	minikube start --driver=qemu \
	--qemu-firmware-path=/run/current-system/sw/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd  \
	--cpus=4  \
	--memory=8g

stop-minikube:
	minikube stop