More or less inclusive guide to running Kurbernetes :

Clear-up : all of the following is for linux-only as Kubernetes can only run whithin a linux or mac (same difference) environement.

additionally Kubernetes.io specifies that only the ubuntu ditribution is supported.

There is possibly an assumption of being able to run an ubuntu VT-D utilising VM inside windows and inside the ubuntu VM boot another VT-D utilising VM.

As I understand it, this is not possible and Kubernetes should update their webpage and guides accordingly.

Finally it's more than possible that hardware is a factor here. IOMMU support is a necessity and so is enbling it in the BIOS.

I'd also highly recommend having more than 4GB of ram for this. (especially if the two-tiered VT-d emulation IS possible and that's what you're attempting).

The info used here was retrieved from :

• https://kubernetes.io/
• https://github.com/dhiltgen/

EMULATING on a LOCAL machine :

I imagine this is what you want to see :

Here's what I did (the following is the easiest solution of the three) :

mkdir temp
cd temp
sudo apt update && sudo apt install libvirt-bin qemu-kvm
sudo adduser $USER kvm
sudo adduser $USER libvirtd
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.19.0/minikube-linux-amd64
curl -L https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.11.0/docker-machine-`uname -s`-`uname -m`
curl -L https://github.com/dhiltgen/docker-machine-kvm/releases/download/v0.10.0/docker-machine-driver-kvm-ubuntu14.04
chmod +x ./kubectl minikube docker-machine docker-machine-driver-kvm
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/minikube
sudo mv docker-machine /usr/local/bin/docker-machine
sudo mv docker-machine-driver-kvm /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-kvm
cd ../
rm -rf temp
kubectl cluster-info

# edit the /etc/environement to include usr/local/bin in your PATH=""
# (arguments are seperated with ":") but it does by default. If it didn't
# then once you've edited and saved remember to run :
# source /etc/environment

docker-machine create -d kvm myengine0
minikube --vm-driver=kvm start

And this is despite being on the wrong OS. I'm on Mint 18 but it worked anyways.

edits and suggestions welcome.

EMULATING on an EMULATED machine (as I understand it this isn't possible) :

W.I.P. help and edits welcome.

Actual Kubernetes INSTALL on a LOCAL or EMULATED machine :

W.I.P. help and edits welcome.

As I understand it :

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:juju/stable
sudo apt update && sudo apt install snapd juju-local # or juju or juju-2.0
# I don't know which is cleaner/more functinal.
# Addapt as needed :
juju add-credential aws 
# enter credetial, select userpass, enter username, enter password
juju update-clouds
juju bootstrap aws/us-east-2 
juju deploy canonical-kubernetes
sudo snap install conjure-up --classic

then once in snap :

conjure-up kubernete