Minishift
Starting Minishift
In the previous version, when you didn't install the driver plugin, Minishift would fail with an issue.
$ minishift start
Starting local OpenShift cluster using 'kvm' hypervisor...
E0808 19:52:14.112554 10581 start.go:287] Error starting the VM: Error getting the state for host: Driver "kvm" not found. Do you have the plugin binary accessible in your PATH?. Retrying.
E0808 19:52:14.112863 10581 start.go:287] Error starting the VM: Error getting the state for host: Driver "kvm" not found. Do you have the plugin binary accessible in your PATH?. Retrying.
E0808 19:52:14.113016 10581 start.go:287] Error starting the VM: Error getting the state for host: Driver "kvm" not found. Do you have the plugin binary accessible in your PATH?. Retrying.
Error starting the VM: Error getting the state for host: Driver "kvm" not found. Do you have the plugin binary accessible in your PATH?
Error getting the state for host: Driver "kvm" not found. Do you have the plugin binary accessible in your PATH?
Error getting the state for host: Driver "kvm" not found. Do you have the plugin binary accessible in your PATH?
After introduction of the pre-flight checks
We nopw check for the availability of the driver, and when possible if properly configured.
$ minishift start
-- Checking if KVM driver is installed ... FAIL
See the 'Setting Up the Driver Plug-in' topic for more information
Other pre-flight checks before starting the VM
$ sudo mv /tmp/docker-machine-driver-kvm /usr/local/bin/
$ minishift start
-- Checking if KVM driver is installed ...
Driver is available at /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-kvm ... OK
-- Starting local OpenShift cluster using 'kvm' hypervisor ...
-- Minishift VM will be configured with ...
Memory: 2 GB
vCPUs : 2
Disk size: 20 GB
-- Starting Minishift VM ... - ^C
Introduction of new functionality
$ minishift --service-catalog
Usage:
minishift start [flags]
Flags:
unknown flag: --service-catalog
Enabling experimental features
To allow features which might not be GA yet, we can now allow them to be showcased and tested.
$ MINISHIFT_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=y minishift start --service-catalog
-- Checking if KVM driver is installed ...
Driver is available at /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-kvm ... OK
-- Starting local OpenShift cluster using 'kvm' hypervisor ...
-- Minishift VM will be configured with ...
Memory: 2 GB
vCPUs : 2
Disk size: 20 GB
-- Starting Minishift VM ... OK
-- Checking for IP address ... OK
-- Checking if external host is reachable from the Minishift VM ...
Pinging 8.8.8.8 ... OK
-- Checking HTTP connectivity from the VM ...
Retrieving http://minishift.io/index.html ... OK
-- Checking if persistent storage volume is mounted ... OK
-- Checking available disk space ... 0% OK
-- OpenShift cluster will be configured with ...
Version: v3.6.0
-- Checking `oc` support for startup flags ...
host-config-dir ... OK
host-data-dir ... OK
host-pv-dir ... OK
host-volumes-dir ... OK
routing-suffix ... OK
service-catalog ... OK
Starting OpenShift using openshift/origin:v3.6.0 ...
Pulling image openshift/origin:v3.6.0
Pulled 1/4 layers, 27% complete
Enabling any cluster up command to be passed through
$ MINISHIFT_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=y minishift start --extra-clusterup-flags="--service-catalog"
-- Checking if KVM driver is installed ...
Driver is available at /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-kvm ... OK
-- Starting local OpenShift cluster using 'kvm' hypervisor ...
-- Minishift VM will be configured with ...
Memory: 2 GB
vCPUs : 2
Disk size: 20 GB
-- Starting Minishift VM ... OK
-- Checking for IP address ... OK
-- Checking if external host is reachable from the Minishift VM ...
Pinging 8.8.8.8 ... OK
-- Checking HTTP connectivity from the VM ...
Retrieving http://minishift.io/index.html ... OK
-- Checking if persistent storage volume is mounted ... OK
-- Checking available disk space ... 0% OK
-- OpenShift cluster will be configured with ...
Version: v3.6.0
-- Checking `oc` support for startup flags ...
host-pv-dir ... OK
host-volumes-dir ... OK
routing-suffix ... OK
host-config-dir ... OK
host-data-dir ... OK
-- Extra `oc` cluster up flags (experimental) ...
'--service-catalog'
Starting OpenShift using openshift/origin:v3.6.0 ...
Pulling image openshift/origin:v3.6.0
Pulled 1/4 layers, 26% complete