diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 661fa59dbec8..1e49d9f98f4d 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -407,6 +407,23 @@ out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2:
 		k8s.io/minikube/cmd/drivers/kvm
 	chmod +X $@
 
+out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2_$(DEB_VERSION).deb: out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2
+	cp -r installers/linux/deb/kvm2_deb_template out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2_$(DEB_VERSION)
+	chmod 0755 out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2_$(DEB_VERSION)/DEBIAN
+	sed -E -i 's/--VERSION--/'$(DEB_VERSION)'/g' out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2_$(DEB_VERSION)/DEBIAN/control
+	mkdir -p out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2_$(DEB_VERSION)/usr/bin
+	cp out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2 out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2_$(DEB_VERSION)/usr/bin/docker-machine-driver-kvm2
+	fakeroot dpkg-deb --build out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2_$(DEB_VERSION)
+	rm -rf out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2_$(DEB_VERSION)
+
+out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2-$(RPM_VERSION).rpm: out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2
+	cp -r installers/linux/rpm/kvm2_rpm_template out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2-$(RPM_VERSION)
+	sed -E -i 's/--VERSION--/'$(RPM_VERSION)'/g' out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2-$(RPM_VERSION)/docker-machine-driver-kvm2.spec
+	sed -E -i 's|--OUT--|'$(PWD)/out'|g' out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2-$(RPM_VERSION)/docker-machine-driver-kvm2.spec
+	rpmbuild -bb -D "_rpmdir $(PWD)/out" -D "_rpmfilename docker-machine-driver-kvm2-$(RPM_VERSION).rpm" \
+		out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2-$(RPM_VERSION)/docker-machine-driver-kvm2.spec
+	rm -rf out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2-$(RPM_VERSION)
+
 kvm-image: $(KVM_BUILD_IMAGE) # convenient alias to build the docker container
 $(KVM_BUILD_IMAGE): installers/linux/kvm/Dockerfile
 	docker build --build-arg "GO_VERSION=$(GO_VERSION)" -t $@ -f $< $(dir $<)
diff --git a/hack/jenkins/release_build_and_upload.sh b/hack/jenkins/release_build_and_upload.sh
index 086ba72484c6..3bb3f3d97c03 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/release_build_and_upload.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/release_build_and_upload.sh
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ cat Makefile | grep "VERSION_MINOR ?=" | grep $VERSION_MINOR
 cat Makefile | grep "VERSION_BUILD ?=" | grep $VERSION_BUILD
 
 # Build and upload
-BUILD_IN_DOCKER=y make -j 16 all out/minikube-installer.exe out/minikube_${DEB_VERSION}.deb out/minikube-${RPM_VERSION}.rpm
+BUILD_IN_DOCKER=y make -j 16 all out/minikube-installer.exe \
+out/minikube_${DEB_VERSION}.deb out/minikube-${RPM_VERSION}.rpm \
+out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2_${DEB_VERSION}.deb out/docker-machine-driver-kvm2-${RPM_VERSION}.rpm
 make checksum
 
 gsutil -m cp out/* gs://$BUCKET/releases/$TAGNAME/
diff --git a/installers/linux/deb/kvm2_deb_template/DEBIAN/control b/installers/linux/deb/kvm2_deb_template/DEBIAN/control
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..49a6075b6a32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/installers/linux/deb/kvm2_deb_template/DEBIAN/control
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Package: docker-machine-driver-kvm2
+Version: --VERSION--
+Section: base
+Priority: optional
+Architecture: amd64
+Depends: libvirt0 (>= 1.3.1)
+Recommends: minikube
+Maintainer: Thomas Strömberg <t+minikube@stromberg.org>
+Description: Machine driver for KVM
+ 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.
diff --git a/installers/linux/deb/minikube_deb_template/DEBIAN/control b/installers/linux/deb/minikube_deb_template/DEBIAN/control
index 6c1a6a6aca5a..98a93a25b8d2 100644
--- a/installers/linux/deb/minikube_deb_template/DEBIAN/control
+++ b/installers/linux/deb/minikube_deb_template/DEBIAN/control
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Section: base
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: amd64
 Recommends: virtualbox
-Maintainer: Aaron Prindle <aaprindle@gmail.com>
+Maintainer: Thomas Strömberg <t+minikube@stromberg.org>
 Description: Minikube
- Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally.
- Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your
+ minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally.
+ minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your
  laptop for users looking to try out Kubernetes or develop with it 
  day-to-day.
diff --git a/installers/linux/rpm/kvm2_rpm_template/docker-machine-driver-kvm2.spec b/installers/linux/rpm/kvm2_rpm_template/docker-machine-driver-kvm2.spec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..372e7e18cccd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/installers/linux/rpm/kvm2_rpm_template/docker-machine-driver-kvm2.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Name: docker-machine-driver-kvm2
+Version: --VERSION--
+Release: 0
+Summary: Machine driver for KVM
+License: ASL 2.0
+Group: Development/Tools
+URL: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
+#Requires: <determined automatically by rpm>
+
+# Needed for older versions of RPM
+BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}%{name}-buildroot
+
+%description
+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.
+
+%prep
+mkdir -p %{name}-%{version}
+cd %{name}-%{version}
+cp --OUT--/docker-machine-driver-kvm2 .
+
+%install
+cd %{name}-%{version}
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
+install -m 755 docker-machine-driver-kvm2 %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/%{name}
+
+%files
+%{_bindir}/%{name}