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.

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 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-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-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

License

It's under the Apache 2 license.