[NON_C_DRIVE] when run from C:\ but user config is on different drive

[shreyasp91]

Unable to get Minikube start even when I do it from C: Drive

I run the below command and receive the below error

C:\Kubernetes>minikube start

• minikube v1.2.0 on windows (amd64)
• Downloading Minikube ISO ...
  129.33 MB / 129.33 MB [============================================] 100.00% 0s
• Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2048MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
  E0718 09:14:58.371558 12332 start.go:559] StartHost: create: creating: open /.minikube/cache/iso/minikube-v1.2.0.iso: The system cannot find the path specified.

X Unable to start VM

• Error: [NON_C_DRIVE] create: creating: open /.minikube/cache/iso/minikube-v1.2.0.iso: The system cannot find the path specified.

• Advice: Run minikube from the C: drive.

• Related issues:

  • start fails when run from non-C:\ drive: open minikube.iso: The system cannot find the path specified. #1574

• If the above advice does not help, please let us know:

  • https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new

• After some digging in I found the .minikube folder is getting created on the :H network drive, this is my company provided PC, i'm not sure if its has anything to do with permission.
• when ever I open the windows CMD its start with H: and I navigate to C: and run the command, yet for some reason the .minikube gets created in :H.

• I'm new to this, just started to learn K8s, any help on this is deeply appreciated.

Version :- Windows 10

Regards,
Shreyas

[tstromberg]

Hey @shreyasp91 - I'm sorry to hear that this is not working correctly on your machine. I think you may have found a situation I wasn't aware of. It's possible to use https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/docs/env_vars.md to set a different location for the minikube configs to be stored. Do you mind trying this for me:

setx MINIKUBE_HOME C:\\Kubernetes\\.minikube

And running minikube <your arguments> --alsologtostderr -v=1

If that doesn't work, try:

setx MINIKUBE_HOME /Kubernetes/.minikube

I imagine other people are running into this, so I would really like to see this get fixed soon. If you don't mind sharing the output of both minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=1 attempts, it would be very helpful.

[shreyasp91]

Hi @tstromberg ,

Thank you so much, I ran "setx MINIKUBE_HOME C:\Kubernetes\.minikube" and it worked like a charm.

Regards,
Shreyas

minikube install verbose.txt

[tstromberg]

I haven't tried - but as far as I know, this is still an issue in v1.4.