I'm attempting to run Minikube in a VMWare Workstation guest, running Ubuntu 18.04.

kubectl version results in:

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"12", GitVersion:"v1.12.0", GitCommit:"0ed33881dc4355495f623c6f22e7dd0b7632b7c0", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-09-27T17:05:32Z", GoVersion:"go1.10.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

minikube version results in:

minikube version: v0.29.0

I have enabled Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI on the VMWare guest configuration. I have 25GB of hard drive space. Yet, regardless of how I attempt to start Minikube, I get the following error:

Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
E1005 11:02:32.495579    5913 start.go:168] Error starting host: Error creating host: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: Error creating VM: virError(Code=1, Domain=10, Message='internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: 2018-10-05T09:02:29.926633Z qemu-system-x86_64: error: failed to set MSR 0x38d to 0x0
qemu-system-x86_64: /build/qemu-11gcu0/qemu-2.11+dfsg/target/i386/kvm.c:1807: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed.').

 Retrying.

Commands I've tried:

minikube start --vm-driver=kvm2

minikube start --vm-driver=kvm

minikube start --vm-driver=none

All result in the same thing.

I notice that on the Ubuntu guest, the network will shortly disconnect and re-connect when I run minikube start. Is it a problem with the network driver? How would I debug this?