How run docker images without connect to Internet?

Question

I have installed docker in a system which has no connection to Internet so to run an image with docker, I had to download a simple image from this and from another system. Then I put this image in my offline system in this path : C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks

but when I run docker run hello-world in cmd I see this message:

Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally 

and tries to download hello-world image form Internet but it has to no connection to the Internet so it field. Now I want to know where I should put my images in to be visible to docker?

Answer 1

You can do it the easy way without messing around with folders, by exporting the docker image from any other machine with access to internet:

1. pull the image on a machine with internet access.

   $docker pull hello-world 

2. save that image to a .tar file.

   $ docker save --output hello-world.tar {your image name or ID} 

3. copy that file to any machine.

4. load the .tar file to docker.

   $docker load --input hello-world.tar 

Check out: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/image_save/ https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/load/#examples