title: Starting minikube on Windows 7 fails to start with - Error getting state for host: machine does not exist
body: <p>Have been trying to setup Kubernetes for local development on my Windows 7 machine with a VirtualBox VM Driver. Installing and running minikube fails each time with the below error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>D:\minikube&gt;minikube start --vm-driver=virtualbox
  Starting local Kubernetes v1.9.0 cluster...
  Starting VM...
  E0219 09:47:24.441727    4220 start.go:159] Error starting host: Error getting state for host: machine does not exist.
  
   Retrying.
  E0219 09:47:24.448727    4220 start.go:165] Error starting host:  Error getting state for host: machine does not exist
  E0219 09:47:54.448727    4220 util.go:151] Error uploading error message: : 
  Post https://clouderrorreporting.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/k8s-minikube/events:report?key=AIzaSyACUwzG0dEPcl-eOgpDKnyKoUFgHdfoFuA: dial tcp 172.217.25.138:443: i/o timeout
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  <p>I suspected this may be happening due to minikube cache downloading at a network drive folder (N:) due to enterprise configurations in my laptop, however, copying the <code>.minikube</code> folder from <code>N:\.minikube</code> to <code>C:\Users\abc123\.minikube</code> has not abated the problem. </p>
  
  <p>Do let me know if someone has managed to solve it.</p>