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I was trying out Kubernetes using minikube in a VM host using KVM as VM Driver.But it looks like I cannot use KVM on a vm host as virtualization will not be enabled on a VM host.

 $ egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
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minikube start is failing with the below error 

$ minikube start --vm-driver=kvm
Starting local Kubernetes v1.8.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
Downloading Minikube ISO
140.01 MB / 140.01 MB [============================================]    
100.00% 0s
E1108 02:38:25.792900   17062 start.go:150] Error starting host: Error  creating host: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: virError(Code=8, Domain=44, Message='invalid argument: could not find capabilities for domaintype=kvm ').

Any suggestions how to proceed on a VM host

Zama Ques
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My advice would be to use --vm-driver=none. This will install all minikube binaries in host machine. While not all features are available, it should be enough for doing some testing.

Javier Salmeron
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  • Was there any special configuration options need to make minkube launch via this method besides `--vm-driver=none`. – Mona Wade Feb 18 '19 at 18:17
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Links that would help

Minikube install in Ubuntu vm_VT-X/AMD-v enabling to VM inside another VM

https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube#quickstart

ambikanair
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See info about enabling nested virtualization: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_nested_virtualization_in_KVM

Robert Kratky
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open another terminal and check that swap is disabled swapoff -a then it will succeed

Ahmed Badawy
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