Docker Machine VMware Workstation Driver

This plugin for Docker Machine creates Docker hosts locally on a VMware Workstation.

This is a placeholder and collaboration point to add a VMware workstation driver for Docker Machine. This driver reuses part of the code from the fusion driver bundled with Docker Machine (as both have the same executable) and includes additional code from Packer VMware driver to detect the location of the files on Windows systems.

This is still a work-in-progress (WIP). I'm working to add the functionality listed on the TODO list. Suggestions and contributions are welcome.

TODO

• drivers/vmwareworkstation/workstation.go: Rework file for vmware workstation
• add windows support
• add cmd/machine-driver-vmwareworkstation.go
• Add Linux/OSX support
• Add dhcplease file discovery on windows
• Add tests cases
• Create makefile
• Add docs/drivers/vm-workstation.md

Requirements

• Windows 7+ (for now)
• Docker Machine 0.5.0+
• VMware Workstation Workstation Free/Pro 12+

Installation

The latest version of docker-machine-driver-vmwareworkstation binary is available on the "Releases" page.

Place the executable in the directory containing docker-machine.exe, or else add it to your $PATH.

Installing with Docker Toolbox

Install Docker Toolbox without VirtualBox:

DockerToolbox-.exe /COMPONENTS="Docker,DockerMachine"

Usage

Official documentation for Docker Machine is available here.

To create a VMware Workstation based Docker machine, just run this command:

docker-machine create --driver=vmwareworkstation default
@FOR /f "tokens=*" %i IN ('docker-machine env default') DO @%i
docker run hello-world

or

docker run -it -v /c/Users/<Your Folder>:/test-folder/ ubuntu bash
ll /test-folder/

Options

• --vmwareworkstation-boot2docker-url: The URL of the Boot2Docker image.
• --vmwareworkstation-disk-size: Size of disk for the host VM (in MB).
• --vmwareworkstation-memory-size: Size of memory for the host VM (in MB).
• --vmwareworkstation-cpu-count: Number of CPUs to use to create the VM (-1 to use the number of CPUs available).
• --vmwareworkstation-ssh-user: SSH user
• --vmwareworkstation-ssh-password: SSH password
• --vmwareworkstation-no-share: Disable the mount of your home directory
• --vmwareworkstation-share-folder: Mount the specified directory instead of the default home location. Format: name:dir

The --vmwareworkstation-boot2docker-url flag takes a few different forms. By default, if no value is specified for this flag, Machine checks locally for a Boot2Docker ISO. If one is found, that will be used as the ISO for the new machine. If one is not found, the latest ISO release available on boot2docker/boot2docker will be downloaded and stored locally for future use. Note that this means you must run docker-machine upgrade deliberately on a machine if you wish to update the "cached" Boot2Docker ISO.

This is the default behavior (when --vmwareworkstation-boot2docker-url=""), but the option also supports specifying ISOs by the http:// and file:// protocols.

Environment variables and default values:

CLI option	Environment variable	Default
--vmwareworkstation-boot2docker-url	WORKSTATION_BOOT2DOCKER_URL	Latest boot2docker url
--vmwareworkstation-cpu-count	WORKSTATION_CPU_COUNT	2
--vmwareworkstation-disk-size	WORKSTATION_DISK_SIZE	40000
--vmwareworkstation-memory-size	WORKSTATION_MEMORY_SIZE	4048
--vmwareworkstation-ssh-user	WORKSTATION_SSH_USER	docker
--vmwareworkstation-ssh-password	WORKSTATION_SSH_PASSWORD	tcuser
--vmwareworkstation-no-share	WORKSTATION_NO_SHARE	false
--vmwareworkstation-share-folder	WORKSTATION_SHARE_FOLDER	Linux: /home Windows: C:\Users\

Development

Build from Source

If you wish to work on VMware Workstation Driver for Docker machine, you'll first need:

• Go installed (version 1.11+ is required).

  • Make sure Go is properly installed, including setting up a GOPATH.

• Task

• Currently, the build only works on Windows (WIP to get it to work on other platforms)

To build the plugin executable binary, run these commands:

$ set GO111MODULE=on
$ go get -d github.com/goldfix/docker-machine-vmwareworkstation
$ cd %GOPATH%/src/github.com/goldfix/docker-machine-vmwareworkstation
$ task

The build creates the binary as %GOPATH%/bin/docker-machine-driver-vmwareworkstation.

Authors

• Gonzalo Peci (@pecigonzalo)
• Pietro Partescano (@goldfix)

Credits

• Partial copy of the README from https://github.com/Parallels/docker-machine-parallels
• Packer VMware Workstation driver functions
• gtirloni Instructions for Docker Toolbox