Docker Machine VMware Driver

Create Docker machines locally on VMware Fusion and Workstation.

This driver requires VMware Workstation 14 (Windows/Linux) or VMware Fusion 10 (macOS) to be installed on your host. Earlier versions of Workstation/Fusion might still work with this driver, but it's not officially supported.

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.

License

The Docker Machine VMware Driver is released under the Apache License 2.0 license, for more information see LICENSE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Installation

From a Release

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

From Homebrew

The driver is available for easy installation via Homebrew on macOS.

$ brew install docker-machine-driver-vmware

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/machine-drivers/docker-machine-driver-vmware

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-network-type: Network connection type to use (e.g. 'nat', 'bridged', 'hostonly')
• --vmware-no-share: Disable the mount of your home directory
• --vmware-ssh-password: SSH password
• --vmware-ssh-user: SSH user
• --vmware-wait-ip: Time to wait for vmrun to get an ip (in milliseconds)

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-network-type	VMWARE_NETWORK_TYPE	nat
--vmware-no-share	VMWARE_NO_SHARE	-
--vmware-ssh-password	VMWARE_SSH_PASSWORD	tcuser
--vmware-ssh-user	VMWARE_SSH_USER	docker
--vmware-wait-ip	VMWARE_WAIT_IP	30000