Add kvm driver support

README.md

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. Minikube runs a
 
 ### Requirements
 
-* [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) or [VMware Fusion](https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion) installation
+* [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads), [VMware Fusion](https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion)
+or [KVM](http://www.linux-kvm.org/) installation
 * VT-x/AMD-v virtualization must be enabled in BIOS
 
 ### Instructions
@@ -29,7 +30,12 @@ See the installation instructions for the [latest release](https://github.com/ku
 ## Quickstart
 
 Here's a brief demo of minikube usage.
-If you want to change the VM driver to VMware Fusion add the `--vm-driver=vmwarefusion` flag to `minikube start`.
+If you want to change the VM driver add the appropriate `--vm-driver=xxx` flag to `minikube start`. Minikube Supports
+the following drivers:
+
+* virtualbox
+* vmwarefusion
+* kvm ([driver installation](#kvm-driver))
 
 Note that the IP below is dynamic and can change. It can be retrieved with `minikube ip`.
 
@@ -64,6 +70,20 @@ Stopping local Kubernetes cluster...
 Stopping "minikubeVM"...
 ```
 
+### Driver plugin installation
+
+Minikube uses Docker Machine to manage the Kubernetes VM so it benefits from the
+driver plugin architecture that Docker Machine uses to provide a consistent way to
+manage various VM providers. Minikube embeds VirtualBox and VMware Fusion drivers
+so there are no additional steps to use them. However, other drivers require an
+extra binary to be present in the host PATH.
+
+#### KVM driver
+
+Download the `docker-machine-driver-kvm` binary from
+https://github.com/dhiltgen/docker-machine-kvm/releases and put it somewhere in
+your PATH. Minikube is currently tested against `docker-machine-driver-kvm` 0.7.0.
+
 ### Reusing the Docker daemon
 
 When using a single VM of kubernetes its really handy to reuse the Docker daemon inside the VM; as this means you don't have to build on your host machine and push the image into a docker registry - you can just build inside the same docker daemon as minikube which speeds up local experiments.

docs/minikube_start.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ minikube start
       --cpus=1: Number of CPUs allocated to the minikube VM
       --iso-url="https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/minikube-0.4.iso": Location of the minikube iso
       --memory=1024: Amount of RAM allocated to the minikube VM
-      --vm-driver="virtualbox": VM driver is one of: [virtualbox vmwarefusion]
+      --vm-driver="virtualbox": VM driver is one of: [virtualbox vmwarefusion kvm]
 ```
 
 ### Options inherited from parent commands

pkg/minikube/cluster/cluster.go

@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ func SetupCerts(d drivers.Driver) error {
 }
 
 func createHost(api libmachine.API, config MachineConfig) (*host.Host, error) {
-	var driver drivers.Driver
+	var driver interface{}
 
 	switch config.VMDriver {
 	case "virtualbox":
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ func createHost(api libmachine.API, config MachineConfig) (*host.Host, error) {
 		driver = d
 	case "vmwarefusion":
 		driver = createVMwareFusionHost(config)
+	case "kvm":
+		driver = createKVMHost(config)
 	default:
 		glog.Exitf("Unsupported driver: %s\n", config.VMDriver)
 	}

pkg/minikube/cluster/cluster_linux.go

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package cluster
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"path/filepath"
+
+	"github.com/docker/machine/libmachine/drivers"
+	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/constants"
+)
+
+type kvmDriver struct {
+	*drivers.BaseDriver
+
+	Memory         int
+	DiskSize       int
+	CPU            int
+	Network        string
+	PrivateNetwork string
+	ISO            string
+	Boot2DockerURL string
+	DiskPath       string
+	CacheMode      string
+	IOMode         string
+}
+
+func createKVMHost(config MachineConfig) *kvmDriver {
+	return &kvmDriver{
+		BaseDriver: &drivers.BaseDriver{
+			MachineName: constants.MachineName,
+			StorePath:   constants.Minipath,
+		},
+		Memory:         config.Memory,
+		CPU:            config.CPUs,
+		Network:        "default",
+		PrivateNetwork: "docker-machines",
+		Boot2DockerURL: config.MinikubeISO,
+		DiskSize:       20000,
+		DiskPath:       filepath.Join(constants.Minipath, "machines", constants.MachineName, fmt.Sprintf("%s.img", constants.MachineName)),
+		ISO:            filepath.Join(constants.Minipath, "machines", constants.MachineName, "boot2docker.iso"),
+		CacheMode:      "default",
+		IOMode:         "threads",
+	}
+}

pkg/minikube/cluster/cluster_non_linux_panic.go

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+// +build !linux
+
+/*
+Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package cluster
+
+import "github.com/docker/machine/libmachine/drivers"
+
+func createKVMHost(config MachineConfig) drivers.Driver {
+	panic("kvm not supported")
+}

pkg/minikube/cluster/cluster_test.go

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ func TestCreateHost(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	if !found {
-		t.Fatalf("Wrong driver name: %v. Should be virtualbox or vmwarefusion.", h.DriverName)
+		t.Fatalf("Wrong driver name: %v. Should be virtualbox, vmwarefusion or kvm.", h.DriverName)
 	}
 }
 

pkg/minikube/constants/constants.go

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ var LogFlags = [...]string{
 var SupportedVMDrivers = [...]string{
 	"virtualbox",
 	"vmwarefusion",
+	"kvm",
 }
 
 const (