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Boot2Docker for OS X fails to start

I am new to docker and I'm attempting to run boot2docker on my work computer. I'm logged in to the computer running OS X version 10.10.1 (Yosemite) with a user account that mounts the home directory from the office network.

I installed Docker v1.4.1 from https://github.com/boot2docker/osx-installer/releases and VirtualBox 4.3.20 for OS X hosts from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I followed the instructions on docker.com mac installation but I didn't get the supposed to be results.

The docker terminal gives this error:

bash-3.2$ /usr/local/bin/boot2docker init 
Virtual machine boot2docker-vm already exists
bash-3.2$ /usr/local/bin/boot2docker up 
error in run: Failed to start machine "boot2docker-vm" (run again with -v for details)
bash-3.2$ $(/usr/local/bin/boot2docker shellinit)
error in run: VM "boot2docker-vm" is not running.
bash-3.2$ docker version
Client version: 1.4.1
Client API version: 1.16
Go version (client): go1.3.3
Git commit (client): 5bc2ff8
OS/Arch (client): darwin/amd64
FATA[0000] Get http:///var/run/docker.sock/v1.16/version: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory. Are you trying to connect to a TLS-enabled daemon without TLS?

Starting boot2docker-vm on VirtualBox returns the following error:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine boot2docker-vm.

NamedPipe#0 failed to bind to local socket
/Network/Servers/servername/Volumes/cal/Users/username/.boot2docker/boot2docker-vm.sock (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)
Solution

  • Finally, this solution worked for me. I have to move the VirtualBox VMs folder from my network home directory to my local machine and change their permissions.

    So on my VirtualBox GUI, under Settings>Storage, I changed the file locations from

    /Network/Servers/servername/Volumes/cal/Users/username/VirtualBox VMs/boot2docker.iso
/Network/Servers/servername/Volumes/cal/Users/username/VirtualBox VMs/boot2docker-vm/boot2docker-vm.vmdk

    to

    /Applications/VirtualBox VMs/boot2docker.iso
/Applications/VirtualBox VMs/boot2docker-vm/boot2docker-vm.vmdk

    and under the Settings>Ports

    from

    /Network/Servers/servername/Volumes/cal/Users/username/VirtualBox VMs/boot2docker-vm.sock

    to

    /Applications/VirtualBox VMs/boot2docker-vm.sock

    So I think it’s a directory and permission issue.