Not able to run KuberVirt in minikube

[arvind bhatt]

Hi,

I am trying to run KubeVirt on minikube on my Windows machine. I tried to run it on local minikube and also on WSL. But in both case I was not able to run start VM. 

I used this KillerKoda link to follow KubeVirt installation. It works on KillerKoda playground only not anywhereelse.

Introduction to KubeVirt | KubeVirt | Killercoda

NAME     AGE     STATUS             READY
testvm   4m52s   CrashLoopBackOff   False

 Name:     containerdisk
 Reason:   Snapshot is not supported for this volumeSource type [containerdisk]

[Barak Korren]

Kubevirt is AFAIK based on KVM, so you can't (AFAIK) run it on Windows.

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[arvind bhatt]

Thanks Korren

So it means it’ll work on native Linux machine only. Even if I use WSL on Windows will not. Is my understanding correct?

Regards

arvind

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[Daniel Hiller]

Hey,

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 4:01 PM arvind bhatt <arvind...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Korren

So it means it’ll work on native Linux machine only. Even if I use WSL on Windows will not. Is my understanding correct?

according to [1] KubeVirt requires the /dev/kvm device to enable hardware emulation. That said, you can try to install qemu under WSL and then enable software emulation as described in the document [1]. 

Note that:

1) I haven't tried that myself so I can't tell whether it will work or not, and

2) software emulation is slower by orders of magnitude.

However, for trying it out it might suffice.

If that doesn't work for you and you don't have a linux machine available you can always try out the Killercoda track [2]

[1] https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/3f7fa708521193396f759be35a3ad93cf8a8f1d0/docs/software-emulation.md?plain=1#L3

[2] https://killercoda.com/kubevirt

 

Good luck!

Best,

Daniel

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[arvind bhatt]

Thanks Daniel

Regards

arvind

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