Docker can't connect to boot2docker because of TCP timeout

Question

I\'m running Mac OS 10.9.5 (Mavericks), I\'ve followed https://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/ to install Docker. I get a timeout error message when I run Docker even though t

Answer 1

OK, so this happened to me as well.

First of all, setting the environment variables is necessary. But then, I kept getting the I/O timeout error even after that.

So, instead of starting boot2docker by running the application package (clicking on the boot2docker icon), I started it from the command line.

I first executed,

$boot2docker init

This said, the VM was already running.

Then I went ahead and tried to start it.

$boot2docker start

This started it.

You can verify it by running

$boot2docker info

It prints a JSON about your running instance.

Then, you can ssh into it and run

$boot2docker ssh
$docker run hello-world

That's it.