Answers: <p>One option to solve this issue is a suggestion as provided by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/51889996/2777965">@AndreasGajdosik</a>, i.e. deleting the <code>.minishift</code> directory.</p>
  
  <p>Once <code>rm -rf ~/.minishift</code> was issued and <code>minishift status</code> was run, the issue has been solved:</p>
  
  <pre><code>user@host$ minishift status
  Does Not Exist
  </code></pre>
  
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Body: <pre><code>minishift start
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>was issued and openshift started:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Login to server ...
  Creating initial project "myproject" ...
  Server Information ...
  OpenShift server started.
  
  The server is accessible via web console at:
      https://192.168.42.37:8443/console
  
  You are logged in as:
      User:     developer
      Password: &lt;any value&gt;
  
  To login as administrator:
      oc login -u system:admin
  
  
  -- Exporting of OpenShift images is occuring in background process with pid 32067.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>At a certain moment, the laptop ran out of free disk space. Once this issue was solved, an attempt was done to restart the minishift, but all commands return:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error creating config for VM: Invalid JSON
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Attempts to solve the issue</strong></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>It turned out that a minishift process was still running. Killing this process and subsequently run <code>minishift status</code> returned the same issue.</li>
  <li><code>sudo systemctl restart libvirtd</code> did not solve the issue</li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/52025920/2777965">@tm1701</a> suggested <code>minishift delete --clear-cache</code>, but that does not solve the issue either</li>
  </ol>
  
Tags: <openshift><minishift>
Title: How to solve `Error creating config for VM: Invalid JSON` in minishift?
UserDisplayName: 030
ThreadText: # How to solve `Error creating config for VM: Invalid JSON` in minishift?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-07)
  
  ```
  minishift start
  
  ```
  
  was issued and openshift started:
  
  ```
  Login to server ...
  Creating initial project "myproject" ...
  Server Information ...
  OpenShift server started.
  
  The server is accessible via web console at:
      https://192.168.42.37:8443/console
  
  You are logged in as:
      User:     developer
      Password: <any value>
  
  To login as administrator:
      oc login -u system:admin
  
  -- Exporting of OpenShift images is occuring in background process with pid 32067.
  
  ```
  
  At a certain moment, the laptop ran out of free disk space. Once this issue was solved, an attempt was done to restart the minishift, but all commands return:
  
  ```
  Error creating config for VM: Invalid JSON
  
  ```
  
  **Attempts to solve the issue**
  
  1. It turned out that a minishift process was still running. Killing this process and subsequently run `minishift status` returned the same issue.
  2. `sudo systemctl restart libvirtd` did not solve the issue
  3. [@tm1701](https://stackoverflow.com/a/52025920/2777965) suggested `minishift delete --clear-cache`, but that does not solve the issue either
  
  **Tags:** openshift, minishift
  
  
  ---
  
  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2019-12-07. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  One option to solve this issue is a suggestion as provided by [@AndreasGajdosik](https://stackoverflow.com/a/51889996/2777965), i.e. deleting the `.minishift` directory.
  
  Once `rm -rf ~/.minishift` was issued and `minishift status` was run, the issue has been solved:
  
  ```
  user@host$ minishift status
  Does Not Exist
  
  ```
  
  
  ---
  
  