Installation of Docker Toolbox on Mac: Error loading driver "virtualbox": dial tcp: missing address

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When installing 1.9b of the docker toolbox on mac (10.10.5), installation completes correctly but when first starting Docker Quickstart Terminal I get the following message and it seems the default docker vm is not created:

bash --login ‘/Applications/Docker/Docker Quickstart Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/start.sh’

Creating Machine default…
Error loading driver “virtualbox”: dial tcp: missing address
Host “default” does not exist
Starting machine default…
Could not load host “default”: Loading host from store failed: Host does not exist: "default"
Setting environment variables for machine default…

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Could not load host “default”: Loading host from store failed: Host does not exist: "default"
docker is configured to use the default machine with IP
For help getting started, check out the docs at https://docs.docker.com

Host “default” does not exist

open for any help!
Thanks!

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I’m getting a similar error on my mac:

Machine default already exists in VirtualBox.
Error trying to get host "default": Error attempting to invoke binary for plugin: dial tcp: missing address
Starting machine default...
Could not load host "default": Error attempting to invoke binary for plugin: dial tcp: missing address
Setting environment variables for machine default...
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related error from kitematic:

/usr/local/bin/docker-machine -D create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-memory 2048 default returned non zero exit code. Stderr: Docker Machine Version: 0.5.0 (04cfa58) Found binary path at /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-virtualbox Launching plugin server for driver virtualbox Plugin server listening at address Error loading driver "virtualbox": dial tcp: missing address
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Here’s what worked for me:

If you don’t have kitematic, install it ( brew install kitematic )

  1. Go to Virtualbox Preferences => Network => Host Only Networks and delete both vboxnet0 and vboxnet1 (ref https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/606#issuecomment-62437837)
  2. I just deleted the VM as well to be thorough
  3. Start Kitematic with finder/spotlight (it’ll automatically start creating the default VM)
  4. docker-machine regenerate-certs default && eval "$(docker-machine env default)"

The eval command will set the environmental variables to their updated values following the certs regen.

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Didn’t work for me.

Kitematic already installed.
removed host only adapters
removed default vm
ran Kitematic

received:
/usr/local/bin/docker-machine -D create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-memory 2048 default returned non zero exit code. Stderr: Docker Machine Version: 0.5.0 (04cfa58) Found binary path at /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-virtualbox Launching plugin server for driver virtualbox Plugin server listening at address Error loading driver “virtualbox”: dial tcp: missing address

ran recert command from command line
received:
Regenerating TLS certificates
Could not load host “default”: Error attempting to invoke binary for plugin: dial tcp: missing address

Doesn’t seem to fix the issue quite yet…

If I run the following from the command line, the machine gets created but i have to run it this way every time and Kitematic still doesn’t work…
DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES= /Applications/Docker/Docker\ Quickstart\ Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/start.sh

Thanks for the suggestion.