docker-machine-driver-vmware

Docker machine vmware driver

This is a docker machine driver for VMware Fusion and Workstation.

How to consume this driver

Prerequisite

Make sure you have VMware Workstation 14 (Windows/Linux) or VMware Fusion 10 (MacOS) installed on your machine. Earlier versions of Workstation/Fusion might still work with this driver, but it's not officially supported.

Install

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

if the PATH is correctly setup, you will see this if you run the command

$ docker-machine-driver-vmware
This is a Docker Machine plugin binary.
Plugin binaries are not intended to be invoked directly.
Please use this plugin through the main 'docker-machine' binary.
(API version: 1)

Usage

The driver can be consumed by docker-machine, or potentially other tools that are compatible to docker machine drivers like minikube (not supported yet). For docker-machine, create a docker machine is simply a command like this:

$ docker-machine create --driver=vmware default

Difference between driver vmwarefusion

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

It's under the Apache 2 license.