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.

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

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.

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

$ brew install docker-machine-driver-vmware

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

$ docker-machine create --driver=vmware default

• --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)