Failure of minikube to connect with the virtual machine

[Tadiwanashe39]

What Happened?

After carefully installed the K8s and minikube and run the necessary command .
minikube failed to connect to the virtual machine displaying the following error:

• minikube v1.37.0 on Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22631.5549 Build 22631.5549
  E1024 09:36:31.710225 16268 start.go:829] api.Load failed for minikube: filestore "minikube": Docker machine "minikube" does not exist. Use "docker-machine ls" to list machines. Use "docker-machine create" to add a new one.
• Using the virtualbox driver based on existing profile
• Starting "minikube" primary control-plane node in "minikube" cluster
• Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=4000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
  ! Failing to connect to https://registry.k8s.io/ from inside the minikube VM
• To pull new external images, you may need to configure a proxy: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/networking/proxy/
• Preparing Kubernetes v1.34.0 on Docker 28.4.0 ...
• Configuring bridge CNI (Container Networking Interface) ...
  • Using image gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
• Verifying Kubernetes components...
  ! Enabling 'default-storageclass' returned an error: running callbacks: [sudo KUBECONFIG=/var/lib/minikube/kubeconfig /var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.34.0/kubectl apply -f /etc/kubernetes/addons/storageclass.yaml: Process exited with status 1
  stdout:

stderr:
error: error validating "/etc/kubernetes/addons/storageclass.yaml": error validating data: failed to download openapi: Get "https://localhost:8443/openapi/v2?timeout=32s": net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers); if you choose to ignore these errors, turn validation off with --validate=false
]

• Enabled addons: storage-provisioner

X Exiting due to GUEST_START: failed to start node: wait 6m0s for node: wait for healthy API server: apiserver healthz never reported healthy: cluster wait timed out during healthz check

log.txt

Attach the log file

please I kindly request your help to resolve this issue

Operating System

Windows

Driver

VirtualBox

[nirs]

/label co/virtualbox

[k8s-ci-robot]

@nirs: The label(s) /label co/virtualbox cannot be applied. These labels are supported: api-review, tide/merge-method-merge, tide/merge-method-rebase, tide/merge-method-squash, team/katacoda, refactor, ci-short, ci-extended, ci-full. Is this label configured under labels -> additional_labels or labels -> restricted_labels in plugin.yaml?

In response to this:

/label co/virtualbox

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