Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X

Posted by bfirsh on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:06PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx

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Re:Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X by nolite on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:13PM (#6985904)

linkbait.. not OS X.. in a VM

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Re:Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X by po84 on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:31PM (#6985993)

Does it support host folder sharing?

PS - I think the boot2docker folks are looking into this as well.

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Re:Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X by bfirsh on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:36PM (#6986032)

Yep, just added folder sharing:

https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx/commit/a7470f9f583cfdad...

We're interested in using boot2docker for docker-osx too. Ubuntu is unnecessarily heavyweight for just running Docker.

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Re:Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X by passfree on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:40PM (#6986065)

You may want to try: https://github.com/websecurify/node-vxdocker

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Re:Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X by jaequery on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:13PM (#6985903)

is there any way to make docker vm stop/start persistently like a normal virtualization (virtualbox, vmware)? last i checked the only way to do that was to run a command that never ends, which i thought was pretty inelegant. this tad annoyance is making me stay away from docker, until they improve this area a bit.

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Re:Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X by sthatipamala on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:45PM (#6986093)

EDIT: You can run /sbin/init as the command for the Docker instance. This will start a container that doesn't die.

It's "inelegant" in that it's still a command that never ends. But that's how all Unix systems work anyway :)

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