docker home download Install Docker Toolbox on Windows. Legacy desktop solution. Docker Toolbox is for older Mac and Windows systems that do not meet the requirements of Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows. We recommend updating to the newer applications, if possible. Docker Toolbox provides a way to use Docker on Windows systems that do not meet minimal system requirements for the Docker for Windows app. If you have not done so already, download the installer here: What you get and how it works. Docker Toolbox includes the following Docker tools: Docker CLI client for running Docker Engine to create images and containers Docker Machine so you can run Docker Engine commands from Windows terminals Docker Compose for running the docker-compose command Kitematic, the Docker GUI the Docker QuickStart shell preconfigured for a Docker command-line environment Oracle VM VirtualBox. Because the Docker Engine uses -specific kernel features, you can’t run Docker Engine natively on Windows. Instead, you must use the Docker Machine command, docker-machine , to create and attach to a small Linux VM on your machine. This VM hosts Docker Engine for you on your Windows system. Tip : One of the advantages of the newer Docker for Windows solution is that it uses native and does not require VirtualBox to run Docker. Step 1: Check your version. To run Docker, your machine must have a 64-bit running Windows 7 or higher. Additionally, you must make sure that virtualization is enabled on your machine. To verify your machine meets these requirements, do the following: Right click the windows message and choose System . If you aren’t using a supported version, you could consider upgrading your operating system. If you have a newer system, specifically 64bit Windows 10 Pro, with Enterprise and Education (1607 Anniversary update, Build 14393 or later), consider using Docker for Windows instead. It runs natively on the Windows, so there is no need for a pre-configured Docker QuickStart shell. It also uses Hyper-V for virtualization, so the instructions below for checking virtualization will be out of date for newer Windows systems. Full install prerequisites are provided in the Docker for Windows topic in What to know before you install. Make sure your Windows system supports Technology and that virtualization is enabled. For Windows 10. Run Speccy, and look at the CPU information. For Windows 8 or 8.1. Choose Start > Task Manager and navigate to the Performance tab. Under CPU you should see the following: If virtualization is not enabled on your system, follow the manufacturer’s instructions for enabling it. For Windows 7. Run a tool like the ® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool or Speccy, and follow the on-screen instructions. Verify your Windows OS is 64-bit (x64) How you do this verification depends on your Windows version. For details, see the Windows article How to determine whether a computer is running a 32-bit version or 64-bit version of the Windows operating system. Step 2: Install Docker Toolbox. In this section, you install the Docker Toolbox software and several “helper” applications. The installation adds the following software to your machine: Docker Client for Windows Docker Toolbox management tool and ISO Oracle VM VirtualBox Git MSYS-git UNIX tools. If you have a previous version of VirtualBox installed, do not reinstall it with the Docker Toolbox installer. When prompted, uncheck it. If you have Virtual Box running, you must shut it down before running the installer. Click the installer link to download. Install Docker Toolbox by double-clicking the installer. The installer launches the “Setup - Docker Toolbox” dialog. If Windows security dialog prompts you to allow the program to make a change, choose Yes . The system displays the Setup - Docker Toolbox for Windows wizard. Press Next to accept all the defaults and then Install . Accept all the installer defaults. The installer takes a few minutes to install all the components: When notified by Windows Security the installer will make changes, make sure you allow the installer to make the necessary changes. When it completes, the installer reports it was successful: Uncheck “View Shortcuts in File Explorer” and press Finish . Step 3: Verify your installation. The installer adds Docker Toolbox, VirtualBox, and Kitematic to your Applications folder. In this step, you start Docker Toolbox and run a simple Docker command. On your Desktop, find the Docker QuickStart Terminal icon. Click the Docker QuickStart icon to launch a pre-configured Docker Toolbox terminal. If the system displays a User Account Control prompt to allow VirtualBox to make changes to your computer. Choose Yes . The terminal does several things to set up Docker Toolbox for you. When it is done, the terminal displays the $ prompt. The terminal runs a special bash environment instead of the standard Windows command prompt. The bash environment is required by Docker. Make the terminal active by clicking your mouse next to the $ prompt. If you aren’t familiar with a terminal window, here are some quick tips. The prompt is traditionally a $ dollar sign. You type commands into the command line which is the area after the prompt. Your cursor is indicated by a highlighted area or a | that appears in the command line. After typing a command, always press RETURN. Type the docker run hello-world command and press RETURN. The command does some work for you, if everything runs well, the command’s output looks like this: Looking for troubleshooting help? Typically, the above steps work out-of-the-box, but some scenarios can cause problems. If your docker run hello-world didn’t work and resulted in errors, check out Troubleshooting for quick fixes to common problems. A Windows specific problem you might encounter relates to the NDIS6 host network filter driver, which is known to cause issues on some Windows versions. For Windows Vista systems and newer, VirtualBox installs NDIS6 driver by default. Issues can range from system slowdowns to networking problems for the (VM). If you notice problems, re-run the Docker Toolbox installer , and select the option to install VirtualBox with the NDIS5 driver . Optional: Add shared directories. By default, Toolbox only has access to the C:\Users directory and mounts it into the VMs at /c/Users . Note : Within the VM path, c is lowercase and the Users is capitalized. If your project lives elsewhere or needs access to other directories on the host filesystem, you can add them, using the VirtualBox UI. Open the VirtualBox UI. Click the Settings gear, then go to Shared Folders . Select any existing listing under Machine Folders , then click the + icon. Choose the Folder Path on the host, enter the Folder Name for within the VM (or take the default, which is the same name as on the host), and configure any additional options you need. Choose Auto-mount if you want the folder to automatically be mounted into the VM, and choose Make Permanent for it to be considered a permanently shared folder. Click OK to add the new folder to the Shared Folders list. Click OK again to save your changes and exit the Settings dialog. How to uninstall Toolbox. Removing Toolbox involves removing all the Docker components it includes. A full uninstall also includes removing the local and remote machines you created with Docker Machine. In some cases, you might want to keep machines created with Docker Machine. For example, if you plan to re-install Docker Machine as a part of Docker for Windows you can continue to manage those machines through Docker. Or, if you have remote machines on a cloud provider and you plan to manage them using the provider, you wouldn’t want to remove them. So the step to remove machines is described here as optional. To uninstall Toolbox on Windows, do the following: List your machines. Optionally, remove each machine. For example: This step is optional because if you plan to re-install Docker Machine as a part of Docker for Windows, you can import and continue to manage those machines through Docker. Uninstall Docker Toolbox using Window’s standard process for uninstalling programs through the control panel (programs and features). Note : This process does not remove the docker-install.exe file. You must delete that file yourself. Optionally, remove the C:\Users\\.docker directory. If you want to remove Docker entirely, you can verify that the uninstall removed the .docker directory under your user path. If it is still there, remove it manually. This directory stores some Docker program configuration and state, such as information about created machines and certificates. You usually don’t need to remove this directory. Uninstall Oracle VirtualBox, which is installed as a part of the Toolbox install. Next steps. Try out the Get started tutorial. Dig in deeper with more tutorials and examples on building images, running containers, networking, managing data, and storing images on Docker Hub. Virtualization on Windows 10 with Virtual Box, Hyper-V and Docker Containers. Recently I started working on a brand new HP ZBook 15-G3 with Windows 10 Pro. And I immediately tried to return to the state I had my previous Windows 7 laptop in: Oracle Virtual Box for running most software in virtual machines, using Docker Machine (and ) for running some things in Docker Containers and using to spin up some of these containers and VMs. I quickly ran into some issues that made me reconsider – and realize that some things are different on Windows 10. In this article a brief summary of my explorations and findings. Docker for Windows provides near native support for running Docker Containers; the fact that under the covers there is still a Linux VM running is almost hidden and from command line (Powershell) and a GUI I have easy access to the containers. I do not believe though that I can run containers that expose a GUI – except through a VNC client Docker for Windows leverages Hyper-V. Hyper-V lets you run an operating system or computer system as a virtual machine on Windows. (Hyper-V is built into Windows as an optional feature; it needs to be explicitly enabled) Hyper-V on Windows is very similar to VirtualBox In order to use Hyper-V or Virtual Box, hardware virtualization must be enabled in the system’s BIOS And the one finding that took longest to realize: Virtual Box will not work if Hyper-V is enabled. So the system at any one time can only run Virtual Box or Hyper-V (and Docker for Windows), not both. Switching Hyper-V support on and off is fairly easy, but it does require a reboot. Quick tour of Windows Hyper-V. Creating a virtual machine is very easy. A good example is provided in this article: https://blog.couchbase.com/hyper-v-run-ubuntu-linux-windows/ that describes how a Hyper-V virtual machine is created with Ubuntu Linux. I went through the following steps to create a Hyper-V VM running Fedora 26. It was easy enough. However, the result is not as good in terms of the GUI experience as I had hoped it would be. Some of my issues: low resolution, only 4:3 aspect ratio, I cannot get out of full screen mode (that requires CTRL-ALT-BREAK and my keyboard does not have a break key. All alternative I have found do not work for me. Download ISO image for Fedora 26 (Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26-1.5.iso using Fedora Media Writer or from https://fedora.mirror.wearetriple.com/linux/releases/26/Workstation/x86_64/iso/) Enable Virtualization in BIOS Enable Hyper-V (First, open Control Panel. Next, go to Programs. Then, click “Turn Windows features on or off”. Finally, locate Hyper-V and click the checkbox (if it isn’t already checked)) Run Hyper-V Manager – click on search, type Hype… and click on Hype-V Manager Create Virtual Switch – a Network Adapter that will allow the Virtual Machine to communicate to the world Create Virtual Machine – specify name, size and location of virtual hard disk (well, real enough inside he VM, virtual on your host), size of memory, select the network switch (created in the previous step), specify the operating system and the ISO while where it will be installed from Start the virtual machine and connect to it. It will boot and allow you to run through the installation procedure Potentially change the screen resolution used in the VM. That is not so simple: see this article for an instruction: https://www.netometer.com/blog/?p=1663 Note: this is one of the reasons why I am not yet a fan of Hyper-V Restart the VM an connect to it; (note: you may have to eject the ISO file from the virtual DVD player, as otherwise the machine could boot again from the ISO image instead of the now properly installed (virtual) hard disk. Article that explains how to create a Hyper-V virtual machine that runs Ubuntu (including desktop): https://blog.couchbase.com/hyper-v-run- ubuntu-linux-windows/ Rapid intro to Docker on Windows. Getting going with Docker on Windows is surprisingly simple and pleasant. Just install Docker for Windows (see for example article for instructions: https://www.htpcbeginner.com/install-docker-on-windows-10/ ). Make sure that Hyper-V is enabled – because Docker for Windows leverages Hyper-V to run a Linux VM: the MobyLinuxVM that you see the details for in the next figure. At this point you can interact with Docker from the Powershell command line – simply type docker ps, docker run, docker build and other docker commands on your command line. To just run containers based on images – local or in public or private registries – you can use the Docker GUI Kitematic. It is a separate install action – – that is largely automated as is described here https://www.htpcbeginner.com/install-kitematic-on- windows/ –to get Kitematic installed. That is well worth the extremely small trouble it is. From Kitematic, you have a graphical overview of your containers as well as an interactive UI for starting containers, configuring them, inspecting them and interacting with them. All things you can do from the command line – but so much simpler. In this example, I have started a container based on the ubuntu-xfce-nvc image (see https://hub.docker.com/r/consol/ubuntu-xfce-vnc/) which runs the Ubuntu Linux distribution with “headless” VNC session, Xfce4 UI and preinstalled Firefox and Chrome browser. The Kitematic IP & Ports tab specify that port 5901 – the VNC port – is mapped to port 32769 on the host (my Windows 10 laptop). I can run the MobaXterm tool and open a VNC session with it, fir 127.0.0.1 at port 32769. This allows me to remotely (or at least outside of the container) see the GUI for the Ubuntu desktop: Even though it looks okay and it is pretty cool that I can graphically interact with the container, it is not a very good visual experience – especially when things start to move around. Docker for Windows is really best for headless programs that run in the background. For quickly trying out Docker images and for running containers in the background – for example with a MongoDB database, an Elastic Search Index and a Node.JS or web server – this seems to be a very usable way of working. Article on installation for Kitematic – the GUI for Docker for Windows: https://www.htpcbeginner.com/install-kitematic-on-windows/ Virtual Box on Windows 10. My first impressions on Virtual Box compared to Hyper-V that for now at least I far prefer Virtual Box(for running Linux VMs).The support for shared folders between host and guest, the high resolution GUI for the Guest, and the fact that currently many prebuilt images are available for Virtual Box and not so many (or hardly any) for Hyper-V are for now points in favor of Virtual Box. I never run VMs with Windows as Guest OS, I am sure that would impact my choice. Note- once more- that for VirtualBox to run on Windows 10, you need to make sure that hardware virtualization is enabled in BIOS and that Hyper-V is not enabled. Failing to take care of either of these two will return the same error VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX): Here is a screenshot of a prebuilt VM image running on Virtual Box on Windows 10 – all out of the box. No special set up required. It uses the full screen, it can interact with the host, is clipboard enabled, I can easily toggle between guest and host and it has good resolution and reasonable responsiveness: How to run Docker and VirtualBox at the same time on Windows. I’m usually using Ubuntu for development with Docker and VirtualBox, but I’ve recently started using Windows 10. Docker and VirtualBox can’t be used at the same time if Hyper-V is used. Hyper-V runs Windows virtualized, so other virtualization software can’t be used at the same time. This is how and why I switched to docker- machine instead so I could run docker and VirtualBox at the same time. Uninstall Docker and disable Hyper-V (if installed) If you have Docker installed, then you need to remove it. Then disable Hyper-V by pressing the Windows key and search for Turn Windows features on or off . Remove the checkbox on Hyper-V if it’s enabled. Open an elevated shell by pressing the windows button and search for PowerShell . Right-click it and runs it as administrator. Run the following command: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off. Make sure Intel VT-x or AMD SVM is enabled. Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and then Task Manager . Check if it says virtualization enabled as shown below. It should say enabled if VT-X or AMD SVM is enabled. If it’s not enabled then you need to enable it in your BIOS. Install VirtualBox. You can download VirtualBox from the official site and install it. Install Docker Toolbox. We’re going to use Docker Toolbox to run docker in virtualbox. The official guide found here has some issues, at least on AMD hardware. It keeps complaining about virtualization not being enabled when it is, so we need to make a small modification to disable the virtualization check. Download Docker Toolbox from GitHub. Run the install file you just downloaded. Open Notepad as administrator and open the file C:\Program Files\Docker Toolbox\start.sh . Make sure you select “all files” if you can’t find it. Find the line "$ " create -d virtualbox $PROXY_ENV "$ " and replace it with "$ " create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-no-vtx-check $PROXY_ENV "$ " . Save the changes. Start Docker Quickstart Terminal . Docker should now be working, and you can continue following the official guide from step 3. Have fun with Docker and VirtualBox at the same time, and a faster Windows experience as Windows no longer runs virtualized Docker Windows Virtualbox. Running Docker containers on a Windows 10 PC has been difficult for the last few years. It’s even more difficult if you want to run VirtualBox virtual machines (VM) at the same time. A casual search will turn up droves of postings saying that you absolutely can not do both at once. VirtualBox prior to version 4.3.30 must not be installed as it is not compatible with Docker Desktop. What’s included in the installer The Docker Desktop installation includes Docker Engine, Docker CLI client, Docker Compose, Notary, Kubernetes, and Credential Helper. Running Docker containers on a Windows 10 PC has been difficult for the last few years. It’s even more difficult if you want to run VirtualBox virtual machines (VM) at the same time. A casual Google search will turn up droves of postings saying that you absolutely can not do both at once. Jul 25, 2016 Installing Docker for Windows enables Hyper-V, which prevents you from being able to use VMWare Workstation or Player. In the future, I would like to see Docker for Windows be able to specify which Virtualization platform to use, Hyper V, VirtualBox or VMWare. I know that I could continue to use Docker Toolbox, but that is not the same on. Therefore, I'm trying to use Windows inside of VirtualBox to install Docker, so that I can pull down a container (Kali) to perform my assessment. However, I've spent a little over 7 hours today troubleshooting. I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with either Windows or my configuration settings. The problem is that Docker on Windows required you to enable the Hyper‑V but VirtualBox 5.x will not run while Hype‑V is active. The docker+VM on Windows OS question has been asked and answered so many times over the years that search results are flooded with the same outdated answer: No, you can’t have both. For some of us, this gets further complicated by people saying you can’t even use Hyper‑V at all on the Windows 10 Home version. Well, things are changing — but you have to really dig deep on the web to get the info you need to make it happen. Two recent changes have turned things around. First, VirtualBox 6 has an ‘experimental’ support for Hyper‑V. Second, the upcoming Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 fully supports docker using Hyper‑V, even on Windows Home edition. WSL2 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is really great for developers who want to install Windows on their PC. It allows you to install a Linux as a peer operating system to Windows that you can easily access through a Linux terminal. WSL version 1 did have some limitations though. A big one for me is that the system call emulation layer Microsoft provides could not support Docker. Docker Windows Virtualbox Versions. WSL2 is big update—faster file system, support for directly running the Linux kernel on Hyper‑V. It is scheduled for the “20H1” update that will be released in the spring of 2020—but you can get it now if you join the Windows Insider program. Instructions for that are found in the Windows Insider Program User Guide. Once you have an updated version of Windows, install of WSL2 is easy enough if you follow the instructions on Microsoft’s website. VirtualBox 6 Installing VirtualBox 6 is simple and you can find the install on the VirtualBox download page. It can be a little tricky to get some VMs running now that you have Hyper‑V enabled. For me, when I tried to restart an old VM, or create a new one using the defaults, I would get an error right away. To get your VMs working, you will need to go into the VM settings, choose the System section, go into the Acceleration tab, and select Hyper‑V as the Paravirtualization Interface. You may also have to disable the I/O APC checkbox on the Motherboard tab. I’ve found some guest OS crash with it checked, but if it works for you, then leave it as is. THEN, you need to add an obscure setting to the .vbox file associated with your VM image: I found that tip about the UseRing0Runloop setting on a forum posting that I was lucky enough to stumble upon. Docker Desktop Windows Virtualbox. Performance/Stability This is working for my setup. Running with these beta test level features does have a few downsides. The VirtualBox VM performance is noticeably slower running this way. It is also a little unstable and you will get intermittent guest OS crashing that you didn’t have before. That’s ok for me since I’m using this for development work so it’s easy enough to restart the VM when it happens. On the WSL side, version 2 is a big improvement. Anything that touches the filesystem is much, much faster. Then we have Docker support, of course, which is why I went through all this in the first place. Unfortunately, I am seeing that some base container images will crash on Docker. I’ve found Centos to be problematic, but Ubuntu works without a problem. Microsoft is still working on WSL2 and judging by the forums, container support is getting better. Docker Windows Virtualbox Settings. This is most definitely not a good fit for most people, but for me, this is an improvement over my old setup. The instability is a little annoying at times. As of right now, January 2020, every component is still in development: Fast ring Insider version of Windows 10, beta version of WSL2, and experimental support for Hyper‑V in VirtualBox. With that said, I’ve been able to do things with Docker containers and WSL that were just not possible a few months ago—and I really like that. Install Docker Toolbox in Windows. Docker is an open platform that can be used to deploy applications in isolated, secure containers. Docker containers are lightweight, simple to configure and work consistently in diverse IT environments. Most Bitnami applications are available as Docker containers and offer all the usual Bitnami benefits: security, optimization, consistency and frequent updates. Install Docker Toolbox in Windows. For Windows 7 (and higher) users, Docker provides Docker Toolbox, an installer that includes everything needed to configure and launch a Docker environment. Docker Toolbox allows you to deploy development containers in legacy Windows systems that do not meet the requirements of the new Docker for Windows application. Docker Toolbox contains the following tools: Docker Machine Docker Engine Docker Compose Kinematic Docker Quickstart Terminal App Oracle VirtualBox. Prerequisites. Your Windows system must meet the following minimum requirements: 64-bit Windows 7 (or higher) Virtualization enabled. Step 1: Check system configuration. The first step is to check if your system configuration meets the requirements needed for running the installer successfully. Check Windows version. Docker Toolbox requires 64-bit Windows 7 (or higher). There are many ways to verify if your machine meets these requirements. Check OS version in Windows 10. Type “Settings” in the Windows Search Box and select “System -> About”. Find your Edition and Version under your PC name. Look “System type” to check if you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows. Check OS version in Windows 7 and 8. Go to “Control Panel -> System and Security -> System”. Check the Windows Edition and System Type. Enable hardware-assisted virtualization. Enabling hardware-assisted virtualization is mandatory for installing Docker Toolbox. Hardware-assisted virtualization in Windows 8 or higher. You can check if your system supports this technology in two different ways. Using the Windows Task Manager: Type “Task Manager” in the Windows Search Box. Click “Performance” tab. Look under “CPU” to find out if virtualization is enabled or not. Using the Windows Command Prompt: Type “Command Prompt” in the Windows Search Box. Right-click to open the options menu. Select “Run as administrator”. Navigate to the C: drive by typing: Run the following command: NOTE: If virtualization is not enabled in your machine, please check how to enable it in your BIOS by following your manufacturer’s instructions. Hardware-assisted virtualization in Windows 7. Download and run the Microsoft Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool. Step 2: Install Docker Toolbox. Download Docker Toolbox. Once the system requirements have been verified, download the installer from the Docker website. Click the download button with the Windows logo. NOTE: Make sure that you are installing the latest release of Docker Toolbox. Find the list of releases in Docker’s GitHub repository. Docker Toolbox will install the following applications: Docker Client for Windows Docker Toolbox management tool and ISO Oracle VirtualBox Git MSYS-git UNIX tools. Launch the Docker Toolbox setup wizard. IMPORTANT: If you have VirtualBox installed and running, please shut down it before the installation begins. These are the steps you must follow for completing the Docker Toolbox installation: Open the installer by double-clicking the .exe file. Choose “Yes” in the Windows security dialog box to allow the program to make changes to your PC. When the Docker Toolbox setup wizard starts, click the “Next” button. Choose the local folder for Docker Toolbox installation. Click the “Next” button. Check the components to be installed (“Git for Windows” is recommended; uncheck “VirtualBox” if already installed). Click “Next”. Accept all default options and click the “Next” button. Verify that all selected components will be installed. Click “Back” to change any settings. Click the “Install” button to finish the installation. If Windows should ask you about permitting changes to your PC, click “Yes” to allow it to make the necessary changes. After all the components are installed, the wizard will notify that installation was successful. Uncheck “View Shortcuts in File Explorer” and click “Finish”. Step 3: Verify the installation. To verify installation, follow these steps: Go to your desktop, which should have these three icons: Docker Quickstart Terminal Kitematic Oracle VM VirtualBox. Launch the Docker Quickstart Terminal by clicking the corresponding icon. This starts the creation of the Docker machine and all its components. Click near the $ symbol to activate the terminal. Type the following command and press Enter : Docker will download and run the “Hello world” container. A confirmation message will be displayed in the terminal. This indicates that your Docker installation is successful. Step 4: Run Bitnami WordPress in Docker. Now that Docker is running, the next step is to use it with a Bitnami application. This guide will use the Bitnami WordPress Docker image. The Bitnami WordPress Docker image provides the latest version of WordPress, including recent updates. This image deploys two containers, one for the database and another for the application itself. Follow the steps below to deploy the Bitnami WordPress image: Open the Docker Quickstart Terminal by double-clicking the icon. Browse to Bitnami’s Docker image for WordPress. Click the “Clone or download” button. Copy the URL to the clipboard. Type git clone in the Docker Quickstart Terminal and paste the URL: Check the IP address of your Docker machine by executing the following command: Change the directory: Run the docker-compose up command to launch the containers and to create the volumes: Access the application by browsing to the Docker machine IP address. You should see something like this: