Docker Machine VMware Driver for Windows 7 and above

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Create Docker machines locally on VMware Fusion and Workstation.

This driver requires VMware Workstation 15 Windows or VMware Fusion 11 (MacOS) to be installed on your host. Earlier versions of Workstation/Fusion might still work with this driver, but it's not officially supported. The assumable version of underlay kernel inside boot2docker changes to 5.4.

Docker machine has a builtin driver called vmwarefusion. The main difference between those drivers is that vmware also works on VMware Workstation, while vmwarefusion only works on VMware Fusion.

Installation

From a Release

The latest version of the docker-machine-driver-vmware binary is available on the GithHub Releases page. Download the the binary that corresponds to your OS into a directory residing in your PATH.

From Source

Make sure you have installed Go and configured GOPATH properly. For MacOS and Linux, make sure $GOPATH/bin is part of your $PATH for MacOS and Linux. For Windows, make sure %GOPATH%\bin is included in %PATH%.

Run the following command:

go get -u github.com/AZ-X/docker-machine-driver-vmware

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Usage

$ docker-machine create --driver=vmware default

Options

• --vmware-boot2docker-url: URL for boot2docker image
• --vmware-configdrive-url: URL for cloud-init configdrive
• --vmware-cpu-count: Number of CPUs for the machine (-1 to use the number of CPUs available)
• --vmware-disk-size: Size of disk for host VM (in MB)
• --vmware-memory-size: Size of memory for host VM (in MB)
• --vmware-no-share: Disable the mount of your home directory
• --vmware-ssh-password: SSH password
• --vmware-ssh-user: SSH user
• --vmware-share-path: VMware Share Path
• --vmware-share-name: VMware Share Name (keep default 'Users' when migration)
• --vmware-bt2d-data-storage: vmdk Path for bt2d data storage
• --ssh-port: SSH port
• --dockerd-port: dockerd port

Environment variables and default values

CLI option	Environment variable	Default
--vmware-boot2docker-url	VMWARE_BOOT2DOCKER_URL	Latest boot2docker url
--vmware-configdrive-url	VMWARE_CONFIGDRIVE_URL	-
--vmware-cpu-count	VMWARE_CPU_COUNT	1
--vmware-disk-size	VMWARE_DISK_SIZE	20000
--vmware-memory-size	VMWARE_MEMORY_SIZE	1024
--vmware-no-share	VMWARE_NO_SHARE	-
--vmware-ssh-password	VMWARE_SSH_PASSWORD	tcuser
--vmware-ssh-user	VMWARE_SSH_USER	docker
--ssh-port	SSH_PORT	22
--dockerd-port	DOCKERD_PORT	2376
--vmware-share-path	VMWARE_SHARE_PATH	C:\docker\
--vmware-share-name	VMWARE_SHARE_NAME	Users
--vmware-bt2d-data-storag	VMWARE_BT2DDATASTORAGE	-

License

See license file LGPL V3 LICENSE.