minikube start failed to create vm with error "panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference"

[q98027]

The exact command to reproduce the issue:
minikube start --vm-driver=hyperv

The full output of the command that failed:

PS C:\windows\system32> minikube start --vm-driver=hyperv
! minikube v1.6.2 on Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.16299 Build 16299

• Selecting 'hyperv' driver from user configuration (alternates: [])
• Creating hyperv VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
  panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
  [signal 0xc0000005 code=0x0 addr=0x28 pc=0x12ee976]

goroutine 94 [running]:
github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/tarball.Write(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc0000357d0, 0x1c, 0xc0000357ed, 0x6, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc000025c58, ...)
/go/pkg/mod/github.com/google/go-containerregistry@v0.0.0-20180731221751-697ee0b3d46e/pkg/v1/tarball/write.go:57 +0x136
k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/machine.CacheImage(0xc0000357d0, 0x23, 0xc0005a9860, 0x4a, 0x0, 0x0)
/app/pkg/minikube/machine/cache_images.go:395 +0x615
k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/machine.CacheImages.func1(0xc0004a7f68, 0x0)
/app/pkg/minikube/machine/cache_images.go:85 +0xed
golang.org/x/sync/errgroup.(*Group).Go.func1(0xc000478090, 0xc0004782a0)
/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/sync@v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/errgroup/errgroup.go:57 +0x6b
created by golang.org/x/sync/errgroup.(*Group).Go
/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/sync@v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/errgroup/errgroup.go:54 +0x6d

The output of the minikube logs command:

The operating system version:
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
OS Version: 10.0.16299 N/A Build 16299
OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation

[sharifelgamal]

This should be fixed with minikube 1.7, can you upgrade and retry?

Closing as a duplicate of #6147