Minikube on Windows and HyperV: Stuck on prompt "minikube login"

Question

I'm "extremely" new to Kubernetes, and I wanted to try it out on my local machine, which is running Windows 10 along with HyperV. I saw that minikube is used for local development, and I was able to find in on Chocolatey, so I installed it using that:

choco install minikube -y

(I think this also installs kubectl)

The problem I have is that I'm not able to start it; I'm running the following command:

minikube start --vm-driver=hyperv

I have an external switch configured in HyperV (I found it as a suggestion somewhere), but when I run the command, it's stuck in Creating VM ...

I thought maybe it would give me a clue if I look at the VM created in HyperV, and when I open that, I see the following:

So, it seems that it's waiting for input, and that's why it's stuck! I tried searching for the problem, but to no avail.

I would appreciate any help

PS: It seems to me that if I wait long enough, the following message appears on the console:

Temporary Error: provisioning: error getting ssh client: Error dialing
    tcp via ssh client: ssh: handshake failed: ssh: unable to authenticate, 
    attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain

Answer 1

So, somehow by chance, I think I found how to resolve the issue.

First thing is that: the fact the VM is displaying that prompt (minikube login) seems to be normal, and it does NOT prevent the minikube start from succeeding.

To resolve the issue, this is what I did:

• Delete ~/.kube directory
• Delete ~/.minikube directory (in case it exists)
• The MOST IMPORTANT step: stop/start the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management Windows service

These steps seem to have solved the issue for me

PS: I used this command to start minikube and enable verbose logging:

minikube start --vm-driver hyperv -v 7 --alsologtostderr