<p>minikube doesn't start with an error "vswitch not found" even though the virtual switch is available</p>

<p><strong>Operating System:</strong> Windows 10
<strong>Hypervisor:</strong> Hyper-V
<strong>Minikube version:</strong> v1.0.0</p>

<p><strong>Available virtual switches:</strong></p>

<pre><code>PS C:\WINDOWS\system32&gt; Get-VMSwitch

Name           SwitchType NetAdapterInterfaceDescription
----           ---------- ------------------------------
DockerNAT      Internal
MinikubeVS     External   Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265
Default Switch Internal
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<p><strong>Error:</strong></p>

<pre><code>λ minikube start --vm-driver hyperv --hyperv-virtual-switch "MinikubeVS" --v 99
o   minikube v1.0.0 on windows (amd64)
$   Downloading Kubernetes v1.14.0 images in the background ...
&gt;   Creating hyperv VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2048MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
@   Downloading Minikube ISO ...
 142.88 MB / 142.88 MB [============================================] 100.00% 0s
Creating CA: C:\Users\sudhi\.minikube\certs\ca.pem
Creating client certificate: C:\Users\sudhi\.minikube\certs\cert.pem
[executing ==&gt;] : C:\windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -NonInteractive @(Get-Module -ListAvailable hyper-v).Name | Get-Unique
[stdout =====&gt;] : Hyper-V

[stderr =====&gt;] :
[executing ==&gt;] : C:\windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -NonInteractive @([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole("S-1-5-32-578")
[stdout =====&gt;] : False

[stderr =====&gt;] :
[executing ==&gt;] : C:\windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -NonInteractive @([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")
[stdout =====&gt;] : True

[stderr =====&gt;] :
[executing ==&gt;] : C:\windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -NonInteractive [Console]::OutputEncoding = [Text.Encoding]::UTF8; (Hyper-V\Get-VMSwitch).Name
[stdout =====&gt;] :
[stderr =====&gt;] : Hyper-V\Get-VMSwitch : The operation on computer 'LAPTOP-CLH1EQAJ' failed: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
At line:1 char:53
+ ... ::OutputEncoding = [Text.Encoding]::UTF8; (Hyper-V\Get-VMSwitch).Name
+                                                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VMSwitch], VirtualizationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Unspecified,Microsoft.HyperV.PowerShell.Commands.GetVMSwitch



!   Unable to start VM: create: precreate: vswitch "MinikubeVS" not found

*   Sorry that minikube crashed. If this was unexpected, we would love to hear from you:
-   https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new
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<p>Had similar situations couple of times. Especially after playing with creating/deleting/reusing <code>hyperv-virtual-switch</code>.</p>

<p>What I can suggest you is to remove <code>C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.minikube</code> and try start minikube again. </p>

<p>This helps in many cases.</p>
