Error starting stopped host: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds.

[norbix]

Hi guys,

I'm using CentOS7 and of course KVM hypervisor to install/setup minikube and I can't move forward because of this error:

[norbix@gamma ~]$ minikube start --vm-driver kvm2
Starting local Kubernetes v1.13.2 cluster...
Starting VM ...
E0318 21:32:40.679351 6630 start.go:205] Error starting host: Error starting stopped host: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds.
Retrying.
E0318 21:32:40.679757 6630 start.go:211] Error starting host: Error starting stopped host: Machine didn't return an IP after 120 seconds

minikube failed :( exiting with error code 1
[norbix@gamma ~]$ minikube version
minikube version: v0.33.1

[norbix@gamma ~]$ sudo virsh list --all|head -3
Id Name State

25 minikube running
[norbix@gamma ~]$
[norbix@gamma ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)
[norbix@gamma ~]$ uname -a
Linux gamma 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 1 14:54:57 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[norbix@gamma ~]$

[tstromberg]

It may not be a long-term solution, but you can probably work around this by running minikube delete to reset the local VM state. Please let me know if that helps!

[amouat]

I have the same error with the kvm2 driver, but with minikube 1.0 and not on redhat. Would you like me to open a different issue? Deleting the VM doesn't seem to help. Is there a preferred kernel version btw?

$ uname -a
Linux marvin 4.16.7-041607-generic #201805021131 SMP Wed May 2 15:34:55 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Update: interestingly, what did help was not using the -p argument. I'm not sure if that was just a coincidence yet; let me know if there's anything I should be looking at to narrow down the bug.

[balopat]

This might be a dupe of #3566 but that one was for debian - this is for centos.

Can you run through the debug recommendations in:

#3566 (comment)

4.16 kernel should be fine.

[tstromberg]

Marking as dupe of #3566