mobile devices under Mac Os X to connect to Docker

Question

I'm trying to connect to my docker instance the devices I have connected to my laptop.

Concretely I have 4 devices (two iphones, two android) and I would like to be able to start 4 docker instances and connect each device to one instance.

What I expected to do is as simply as in ubuntu

docker run --privileged -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb -d -P my-android:0.0.1

But my host OS is a Mac OS X, also the instances I'm creating, because I need access to the instruments tool.

but so far I read that under mac os x, devices are connected directly though usb not being mounted.

this is what I got when I search for the iphone device:

      iPhone USB:
      Type: Ethernet
      BSD Device Name: en6
      IPv4:
          Configuration Method: DHCP
      IPv6:
          Configuration Method: Automatic
      Proxies:
          Exceptions List: *.local, 169.254/16
          FTP Passive Mode: Yes

Do you know how can I connect the devices to the docker instances?

Thanks!!!!

Answer 1

I got this working with the docker-machine on virtualbox with the VirtualBox Extension Pack installed (provides support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices).

• have the mobile phone connected to the host system.

  $ ioreg -p IOUSB | grep SAMSUNG
  +-o SAMSUNG_Android@14100000  <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x100000c66, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (13 ms), retain 34>
  

• create the a docker machine with the virtualbox driver (I've named it base)

  docker-machine create --driver virtualbox base
  

• stop the machine to enable the USB Controller on the VM

  docker-machine stop base
  

    docker-machine start base

- activate the base VM as docker host

    eval $(docker-machine env base)

- start ubuntu container with the usb devices mounted

    docker run -it --rm -v /dev/usb/bus:/dev/bus/usb ubuntu /bin/bash

- install the usbutils just to demo with lsusb that the android device is connected

    root@ce1e4be0bb73:/# apt-get update && apt-get install -y usbutils

• 1st run of lsusb (did not show the device)

  root@ce1e4be0bb73:/# lsusb
  Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
  Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  

• to show the device I had to unplug and plug again my phone, 2nd run of lsusb

  root@ce1e4be0bb73:/# lsusb
  Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
  Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Galaxy (MTP)
  Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub