diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/convert.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/convert.go
index 31498ed6814..31fe5aa7c63 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/convert.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/convert.go
@@ -55,6 +55,6 @@ func toRuntimeImage(image *docker.APIImages) (*kubecontainer.Image, error) {
 	return &kubecontainer.Image{
 		ID:   image.ID,
 		Tags: image.RepoTags,
-		Size: image.Size,
+		Size: image.VirtualSize,
 	}, nil
 }
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/convert_test.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/convert_test.go
index 6cac463a30f..7afa56d9fe1 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/convert_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/convert_test.go
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ func TestToRuntimeContainer(t *testing.T) {
 
 func TestToRuntimeImage(t *testing.T) {
 	original := &docker.APIImages{
-		ID:       "aeeea",
-		RepoTags: []string{"abc", "def"},
-		Size:     1234,
+		ID:          "aeeea",
+		RepoTags:    []string{"abc", "def"},
+		VirtualSize: 1234,
 	}
 	expected := &kubecontainer.Image{
 		ID:   "aeeea",
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/manager.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/manager.go
index d1a2912f539..56ba68e9fbd 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/manager.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/manager.go
@@ -1067,9 +1067,8 @@ func (dm *DockerManager) killContainer(containerID types.UID) error {
 	return err
 }
 
-// TODO(vmarmol): Unexport this as it is no longer used externally.
 // Run a single container from a pod. Returns the docker container ID
-func (dm *DockerManager) RunContainer(pod *api.Pod, container *api.Container, netMode, ipcMode string) (kubeletTypes.DockerID, error) {
+func (dm *DockerManager) runContainerInPod(pod *api.Pod, container *api.Container, netMode, ipcMode string) (kubeletTypes.DockerID, error) {
 	ref, err := kubecontainer.GenerateContainerRef(pod, container)
 	if err != nil {
 		glog.Errorf("Couldn't make a ref to pod %v, container %v: '%v'", pod.Name, container.Name, err)
@@ -1157,7 +1156,7 @@ func (dm *DockerManager) createPodInfraContainer(pod *api.Pod) (kubeletTypes.Doc
 		dm.recorder.Eventf(ref, "pulled", "Successfully pulled image %q", container.Image)
 	}
 
-	id, err := dm.RunContainer(pod, container, netNamespace, "")
+	id, err := dm.runContainerInPod(pod, container, netNamespace, "")
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
@@ -1405,7 +1404,7 @@ func (dm *DockerManager) SyncPod(pod *api.Pod, runningPod kubecontainer.Pod, pod
 
 		// TODO(dawnchen): Check RestartPolicy.DelaySeconds before restart a container
 		namespaceMode := fmt.Sprintf("container:%v", podInfraContainerID)
-		_, err = dm.RunContainer(pod, container, namespaceMode, namespaceMode)
+		_, err = dm.runContainerInPod(pod, container, namespaceMode, namespaceMode)
 		dm.updateReasonCache(pod, container, err)
 		if err != nil {
 			// TODO(bburns) : Perhaps blacklist a container after N failures?
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/kubelet.go b/pkg/kubelet/kubelet.go
index 6f1ed166f6c..b2d65585003 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/kubelet.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/kubelet.go
@@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ func (kl *Kubelet) SyncPods(allPods []*api.Pod, podSyncTypes map[types.UID]metri
 	}
 
 	// Note that we just killed the unwanted pods. This may not have reflected
-	// in the cache. We need to bypass the cach to get the latest set of
+	// in the cache. We need to bypass the cache to get the latest set of
 	// running pods to clean up the volumes.
 	// TODO: Evaluate the performance impact of bypassing the runtime cache.
 	runningPods, err = kl.containerRuntime.GetPods(false)
@@ -1696,7 +1696,8 @@ func getPodReadyCondition(spec *api.PodSpec, statuses []api.ContainerStatus) []a
 	return ready
 }
 
-// GetPodStatus returns information from Docker about the containers in a pod
+// GetPodStatus returns information of the containers in the pod from the
+// container runtime.
 func (kl *Kubelet) GetPodStatus(podFullName string) (api.PodStatus, error) {
 	// Check to see if we have a cached version of the status.
 	cachedPodStatus, found := kl.statusManager.GetPodStatus(podFullName)
@@ -1722,14 +1723,14 @@ func (kl *Kubelet) generatePodStatus(pod *api.Pod) (api.PodStatus, error) {
 
 	if err != nil {
 		// Error handling
-		glog.Infof("Query docker container info for pod %q failed with error (%v)", podFullName, err)
+		glog.Infof("Query container info for pod %q failed with error (%v)", podFullName, err)
 		if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "resource temporarily unavailable") {
 			// Leave upstream layer to decide what to do
 			return api.PodStatus{}, err
 		} else {
 			pendingStatus := api.PodStatus{
 				Phase:   api.PodPending,
-				Message: fmt.Sprintf("Query docker container info failed with error (%v)", err),
+				Message: fmt.Sprintf("Query container info failed with error (%v)", err),
 			}
 			return pendingStatus, nil
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/pod_workers.go b/pkg/kubelet/pod_workers.go
index 8e5ba11b829..aa842316cee 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/pod_workers.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/pod_workers.go
@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ func (p *podWorkers) managePodLoop(podUpdates <-chan workUpdate) {
 	for newWork := range podUpdates {
 		func() {
 			defer p.checkForUpdates(newWork.pod.UID, newWork.updateCompleteFn)
-			// We would like to have the state of Docker from at least the moment
-			// when we finished the previous processing of that pod.
+			// We would like to have the state of the containers from at least
+			// the moment when we finished the previous processing of that pod.
 			if err := p.runtimeCache.ForceUpdateIfOlder(minRuntimeCacheTime); err != nil {
-				glog.Errorf("Error updating docker cache: %v", err)
+				glog.Errorf("Error updating the container runtime cache: %v", err)
 				return
 			}
 			pods, err := p.runtimeCache.GetPods()