Docker for Windows not working

Question

I\'ve installed Docker toolbox now and I get the error for everything:

Get http://127.0.0.1:2375/v1.20/version: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: ConnectExtcp: No con         


        

Answer 1

On my non-virtual machine, I got same error. Below steps worked for me

Right click docker->Under Settings->General do you have Expose daemon on tcp://localhost:2375 without TLS enabled? You need to if you want to access the daemon as described. But please do keep in mind that this setting is insecure as explained in the warning.

Answer 2

My issue was "...error getting IP address" Thanks to all the people here who have contributed their solutions which I read through and performed these steps:

1. Close Docker

2. Open VirtualBox Manager

3. Delete default VM

4. Start Kitematic first (I think this is important)

5. Start Docker

Answer 3

I had the same issue with Docker Toolbox on Windows 10 Home. The steps to fix the problem from here:

1. run docker-machine ls to get a list, you should probably see this:

NAME      ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL   SWARM   DOCKER    ERRORS
default   -        virtualbox   Stopped                 Unknown

2. Optional step upgrading (be patient):

docker-machine upgrade

3. restart the default:

docker-machine start default

don't worry if says:

Machine "default" is already running.

4. now you should be able to run docker version and see something like:

Client:
 Version:           19.03.1
 API version:       1.40
 Go version:        go1.12.7
 Git commit:        74b1e89e8a
 Built:             Wed Jul 31 15:18:18 2019
 OS/Arch:           windows/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          19.03.5
  API version:      1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.12.12
  Git commit:       633a0ea838
  Built:            Wed Nov 13 07:28:45 2019
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v1.2.10
  GitCommit:        b34a5c8af56e510852c35414db4c1f4fa6172339
 runc:
  Version:          1.0.0-rc8+dev
  GitCommit:        3e425f80a8c931f88e6d94a8c831b9d5aa481657
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.18.0
  GitCommit:        fec3683

Answer 4

Just recreate the default machine, and then run

docker-machine env default

It works for me.

Answer 5

I too had the same problem, but I was able to solve it without having to type anything on the command line, it just worked out of the box.

It turns out a few initialization steps were missing, as pointed out in the accepted answer above. Why wasn't the default Docker installation already doing this? I also had missing certs. So, I uninstalled everything and restarted from scratch. However, after the installation completed, this time around do not open the Docker Quick Start terminal first, open Kitematic instead to do the first initialization for you.

Kitematic created the certs for me, set the missing env variables and then I opened the Docker Quick Start terminal. I typed docker run hello-world, then docker version and this time it worked as expected, no error messages.

Note that this didn't work when I opened the Quick Start terminal first.

I'm testing Docker inside VMWare 10 instances and I was able to duplicate this problem and its solution (workaround) in every case.

I hope this helps.

Answer 6

this works for me

1) start the command line tool first and get the machine ip address by running

docker-machine ls command

2) Re-generate certs docker-machine regenerate-certs

3) Set the evn variables manually in my case the location of certs was different

set DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1

set DOCKER_HOST=tcp://machine_IP:2376

set DOCKER_CERT_PATH=C:\Users\X.docker\machine\certs

set DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME=default

Now run docker version

Here is the output in my case

Client: Version: 1.8.1 API version: 1.20 Go version: go1.4.2 Git commit: d12ea79 Built: Thu Aug 13 02:49:29 UTC 2015 OS/Arch: windows/amd64

Server: Version: 1.8.1 API version: 1.20 Go version: go1.4.2 Git commit: d12ea79 Built: Thu Aug 13 02:49:29 UTC 2015 OS/Arch: linux/amd64