moby/docs/sources/installation/vagrant.rst

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Using Vagrant (Mac, Linux)

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This guide will setup a new virtualbox virtual machine with docker installed on your computer.

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Docker, Docker documentation, virtualbox, vagrant, git, ssh, putty, cygwin

Using Vagrant (Mac, Linux)

This guide will setup a new virtualbox virtual machine with docker installed on your computer. This works on most operating systems, including MacOSX, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and others. If you can install these and have at least 400MB RAM to spare you should be good.

Install Vagrant and Virtualbox

1. Install virtualbox from https://www.virtualbox.org/ (or use your package manager)
2. Install vagrant from http://www.vagrantup.com/ (or use your package manager)
3. Install git if you had not installed it before, check if it is installed by running git in a terminal window

Spin it up

1. Fetch the docker sources (this includes the Vagrantfile for machine setup).

   git clone https://github.com/dotcloud/docker.git

2. Change directory to docker

   cd docker

3. Run vagrant from the sources directory

   vagrant up

   Vagrant will:

   • Download the 'official' Precise64 base ubuntu virtual machine image from vagrantup.com
   • Boot this image in virtualbox
   • Follow official ubuntu_linux installation path

   You now have a Ubuntu Virtual Machine running with docker pre-installed.

Connect

To access the VM and use Docker, Run vagrant ssh from the same directory as where you ran vagrant up. Vagrant will connect you to the correct VM.

vagrant ssh

Run

Now you are in the VM, run docker

sudo docker

Continue with the hello_world example.