products. Specifically the Windows version of the kubelet.exe calls `GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory` to get the physical memory installed on Windows machines and reports it as part of node metrics to heapster. This API call fails for VMware and VirtualBox virtualization environments. This issue is not present in bare metal Windows deployments, in Hyper-V, or on some of the popular public cloud providers.

*   If you run `kubectl get po` while the API server in unreachable, a misleading...

There is also a new way to run bleeding edge Windows features from scratch by compiling the windows kubelet and kube-proxy, then using them along with daily builds of other Kubernetes components.