Error setting up docker on Windows

Question

I am trying to set up docker machine on Windows and this problem has annoyed me for a few days.

I downloaded and installed DockerToolbox-1.9.1a on my Windows, so it came with Virtual Box version 5.0.10. After that I ran this command to create my virtual machine:

docker-machine create --driver virtualbox --engine-insecure-registry docker.pre-prod.ss.local:5000 --virtualbox-hostonly-cidr 192.168.99.100/24 mymachine

Here is what I got:

Waiting for machine to be running, this may take a few minutes... Machine is running, waiting for SSH to be available... Detecting operating system of created instance... Detecting the provisioner... Provisioning created instance... Copying certs to the local machine directory... Copying certs to the remote machine... Setting Docker configuration on the remote daemon... WARNING >>> This machine has been allocated an IP address, but Docker Machine could not reach it successfully.

SSH for the machine should still work, but connecting to exposed ports, such as the Docker daemon port (usually :2376), may not work properly.

You may need to add the route manually, or use another related workaround

This could be due to a VPN, proxy, or host file configuration issue.

You also might want to clear any VirtualBox host only interfaces you are not using

The machine was created successfully. So I ran the docker-machine env command:

docker-machine env --shell=powershell mymachine| Invoke-Expression

and I got:

Error running connection boilerplate: Error checking and/or regenerating the certs: There was icates for host "192.168.99.100:2376": dial tcp 192.168.99.100:2376: connectex: No connection target machine actively refused it. You can attempt to regenerate them using 'docker-machine regenerate-certs name'. Be advised that this will trigger a Docker daemon restart which will stop running containers.

Running docker version returned

Client: Version: 1.9.1 API version: 1.21 Go version:
go1.4.3 Git commit: a34a1d5 Built: Fri Nov 20 17:56:04 UTC 2015 OS/Arch: windows/amd64 An error occurred trying to connect: Get http://localhost:2375/v1.21/version: dial tcp connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

Can someone help to point out the direction to fix this issue? It is really troublesome to set up docker on Windows. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

I use docker 1.9.1 on Windows (7, 8 and even 10), but without docker registry, and without using --virtualbox-hostonly-cidr.

If you are to use that last option, check "Set a specific address ip when i create a docker container", where I mention issue 1709, which uses cidr in .1, not .100 (but getting a .100 ip address as a result):

docker-machine create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-hostonly-cidr "192.168.99.1/24" m99

If there's no other machine with the same cidr (Classless Inter-Domain Routing), the machine should always get the .100 IP upon start.