How to start Boot2Docker in PowerShell in Windows?

Question

Windows 7/8 has a more advanced command-prompt called PowerShell. This has easy copy paste and scrolling support. Boot2Docker is a simple application for Windows to launch a Docker environment.

Problem is: the Docker environment is launched on the old command prompt, and no advanced options are available. Is there any small technique where we can use PowerShell + Boot2Docker?

Edit: You can refer the latest document reference from Docker. They gave simple guidelines to access Docker shell from Putty and Powershell.

https://docs.docker.com/installation/windows/

Answer 1

I solved this problem in few steps. There can be better solutions as well.

Boot2Docker uses Git shell to launch virtual machine for Virtualbox.

Step 1: Append following to your System PATH (Environment Variables)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd;

Step 2: Open Powershell (Run+powershell)

Step 3: Go to your Docker installation folder in powershell and execute following command

sh.exe .\start.sh

Please find out simple shortcut approach to avoid hard copy.