diff --git a/pkg/drivers/kic/types.go b/pkg/drivers/kic/types.go
index 32f314ba4a..757f8ab599 100644
--- a/pkg/drivers/kic/types.go
+++ b/pkg/drivers/kic/types.go
@@ -26,15 +26,29 @@ const (
 	// Version is the current version of kic
 	Version = "v0.0.15-snapshot4"
 	// SHA of the kic base image
-	baseImageSHA = "ef1f485b5a1cfa4c989bc05e153f0a8525968ec999e242efff871cbb31649c16"
+	baseImageSHA          = "ef1f485b5a1cfa4c989bc05e153f0a8525968ec999e242efff871cbb31649c16"
+	baseMultiArchImageSHA = "todo"
 )
 
 var (
 	// BaseImage is the base image is used to spin up kic containers. it uses same base-image as kind.
-	BaseImage = fmt.Sprintf("gcr.io/k8s-minikube/kicbase:%s@sha256:%s", Version, baseImageSHA)
+	BaseImage = fmt.Sprintf("gcr.io/k8s-minikube/kicbase-multiarch:%s@sha256:%s", Version, baseMultiArchImageSHA)
 
 	// FallbackImages are backup base images in case gcr isn't available
 	FallbackImages = []string{
+
+		// the fallback of multi-arch BaseImage in case gcr.io is not available. stored in docker hub
+		// same image is push to https://github.com/kicbase/stable
+		fmt.Sprintf("kicbase/stable-multiarch:%s@sha256:%s", Version, baseMultiArchImageSHA),
+
+		// the fallback of multi-arch BaseImage in case gcr.io is not available. stored in github packages https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/packages/206071
+		// github packages docker does _NOT_ support pulling by sha as mentioned in the docs:
+		// https://help.github.com/en/packages/using-github-packages-with-your-projects-ecosystem/configuring-docker-for-use-with-github-packages
+		fmt.Sprintf("docker.pkg.github.com/kubernetes/minikube/kicbase-multiarch:%s", Version),
+
+		// the amd64 only base image is used to spin up kic containers
+		fmt.Sprintf("gcr.io/k8s-minikube/kicbase:%s@sha256:%s", Version, baseImageSHA),
+
 		// the fallback of BaseImage in case gcr.io is not available. stored in docker hub
 		// same image is push to https://github.com/kicbase/stable
 		fmt.Sprintf("kicbase/stable:%s@sha256:%s", Version, baseImageSHA),