Minikube: Unable to start VM: Error getting state for host: machine does not exist

[Nikjz]

I tried executing minikube start and got the following error -

C:\Users\Nikhil Singh>minikube start
o minikube v0.35.0 on windows (amd64)
i Tip: Use 'minikube start -p ' to create a new cluster, or 'minikube delete' to delete this one.
! Unable to start VM: Error getting state for host: machine does not exist

• Sorry that minikube crashed. If this was unexpected, we would love to hear from you:
• https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new

Windows 10

[tstromberg]

I think what's happened here is that you have an old minikube configuration laying around, but have deleted the underlying VM in Virtualbox.

You should be able to get passed this by running minikube delete to delete the old minikube config and then minikube start will be able to create a new configuration and VM.

Please let me know if this helps!

[tstromberg]

I believe this issue was resolved in the v1.1.0 release. Please try upgrading to the latest release of minikube and run minikube delete to remove the previous cluster state.

If the same issue occurs, please re-open this bug. Thank you opening this bug report, and for your patience!

[CloudCrusader]

I manually removed a VM called minikube from Hyper-V on W10 Enterprise 1903 ,
running the 'minikube delete' command results in error.

[stderr =====>] : Hyper-V\Get-VM : Hyper-V was unable to find a virtual machine with name "minikube".

running the 'minikube delete -p minikube' results in same error.
(minikube v1.2.0)

[wildanr]

I'm using Windows 10, minikube version v1.5.2, with Virtual Box and facing this problem after several attempt of minikube stop, minikube delete, deleting .minikube, and repeat.

After several minutes of frustration, I finally get it to work by simply restarting the computer.

[msalaslo]

I was using Windows 10 + minikube v1.5.2 and was facing the same issue.
After upgrading minikube to v1.12.1 and executing:

minikube delete
minikube start 

everything worked fine.