Yesterday I installed boot2docker on my macbookpro and everything seems to works well. However when when I run "docker -d " it shows an error this is a client-only binary - running the docker daemon is not supported. While looking online for an answer it seems the docker binary needs to be recompiled but is it really the correct way to go?
Docker containers only run on Linux. To make this work on OS X, the boot2docker package runs Docker containers in a linux virtual machine.
The only part that runs native on OS X is the client. Which is just that. A client that talks to the Docker daemon running in the Linux virtual machine.
So recompiling the docker daemon for OS X will not help. It will only run on Linux.