Docker in a Parallels' Virtual Windows 10 Pro Machine

Question

• I have a 2013 Mac Pro running the latest Parallels Desktop Pro v 12.2.0 (41591)
• On it, is a Windows 10 Pro virtual with Docker Version 17.03.1-ce-win10 (11972)

Docker can only run with 'windows containers' because when trying to fire up the 'MobyLinux' instance in Hyper-V, it never fires up always bombing at:

tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed I understand this to be some time dependent sync that has to happen at boot time or such failure occurs. I bought a WD 1TB SSD on a Thunderbolt dock to speed up the run/boot time of the virtual. (it was on my platter RAID cage before) to no avail. No diff.

Parallels IS set to 'enable nested virtualization' and I have started a virtual in Hyper-V on the win 10 Pro VM just fine, no errors. I have checked and unchecked 'PMU Virtualization' which I understand will provide statistics to the host but slow the VM.

I tried:

• reducing the number of assigned cores to the VM as suggested by another post to no avail (2-6 cores tried)
• Reducing the cores to '1' for Docker (and mixing with above attempt)
• increasing the number of cores to docker
• adding/reducing memory to VM/Docker

• playing with the

  C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\MobyLinux.ps1

  file that loads the VM whereas in another post I changed something to

• verifying that "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks\MobyLinuxVM.vhdx" is teh correct location for the .vhdx

• verifying that the .iso is at "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\mobylinux.iso"
• uninstalling Hyper-v/reinstalling Hyper-v manually and letting Docker do it automatically ...

I am at wit's end. I specifically bought this machine so I could do my MS/Visual Studio development along with iOS development on the same box. I have done so, this way, for the past 5-6 years with a 2009 Mac Pro before and now my 2013 MP, but never with Docker before...

So, I need one of two solutions:

1. a way to make Visual Studio 2015/2017 'look' at my host Mac's Docker instance in order to debug/move on to development
2. a way to make this 'MobyLinux' Docker vm run.

Answer 1

I was having the same issues and I had initially set the memory to the highest levels allotted and Docker just flat would not run in the Windows box. After tinkering with it for a while I realized that in the Windows box I had not done any of the updates so I ran all those and logged back in, and was getting the same issues of docker not running. That is when I moved over to Parallels and made the changes shown below. Hopefully that helps!

result of docker version: https://a.cl.ly/kpumLPz4

hyper v: https://a.cl.ly/jkunldkm

settings in parallels: https://a.cl.ly/QwuGKq1D

additional settings in parallels that I changed: https://a.cl.ly/9ZuNElnb

command that I ran for hello_world: docker run --rm busybox echo hello_world

windows docs on Linux containers 10

docker docs on windows install