I've been playing around with docker on a mac so I need to install boot2docker to make it work.
I have a pretty powerful machine and a very resource hungry app so I want to up the available memory from the default which is 1GB to something like 8GB.
This is what I've tried
Booting boot2dock with the --memory param
boot2docker --memory=8116 boot
Change the config file
Verbose = true
VBM = "VBoxManage"
SSH = "ssh"
SSHGen = "ssh-keygen"
SSHKey = "/Users/mjsilva/.ssh/id_boot2docker"
VM = "boot2docker-vm"
Dir = "/Users/mjsilva/.boot2docker"
ISO = "/Users/mjsilva/.boot2docker/boot2docker.iso"
VMDK = ""
DiskSize = 20000
Memory = 8116
SSHPort = 2022
DockerPort = 2375
HostIP = "192.168.59.3"
DHCPIP = "192.168.59.99"
NetMask = [255, 255, 255, 0]
LowerIP = "192.168.59.103"
UpperIP = "192.168.59.254"
DHCPEnabled = true
Serial = false
SerialFile = "/Users/mjsilva/.boot2docker/boot2docker-vm.sock"
and then booting boot2docker
boot2docker boot
None of this approaches seem to work. I only end up only having the default memory.
The only way I manage to change was going to virtualbox GUI shutdown boot2docker, change it manually and boot it again.
Am I missing something?
You will need to re-initialize the boot2docker VM with the new memory settings:
$ boot2docker delete
$ boot2docker init -m 5555
... lots of output ...
$ boot2docker info
{ ... "Memory":5555 ...}
You can now boot2docker up and the image will always use the configured amount of memory.