When I installed the Docker private beta, and now when I reboot my machine I get a dialog box titled “Failed to start Docker” - Not enough memory to start Docker. The message is “You are trying to start docker but you don’t have enough memory. Free some memory or change your vm settings”. I’m run…

Got this error on a Windows 10 Pro 4GB system with Docker 1.12.0-rc2. The error went away after: In Docker’s system tray->Settings->Advanced moved Memory slider from 2048 to 1280. Rebooted IMHO, Docker installer needs to use configuration settings that will work on the system as opposed set…

Thx for your feedback. @bsalita the amount of free memory is not the amount of the amount of memory we can set the hyper-v VM to. Detecting that, take some time and slow down the startup time of Docker. As you suggested, I’m pretty sure we can improve and use a more appropriate default for device …

@jeanlaurent I had the same issue as @bsalita but 1k was still too much with PyCharm running. In HyperV manager I made the RAM utilisation dynamic with minimum 64 MB. That worked well for me. You could try to do the same by default. Start with just enough RAM to boot the Linux and have the slider in…

are we saying that turning down the memory slider helps docker memory startup problems? or are these docker startup memory problems caused by hyper-v? I normally start docker from my cmd terminal or sometimes from my win git-bash terminal. Are there switches that can be passed when calling the win…

One currently cannot use the system tray -> Settings… to change the memory allocation. A known bug prevents that because the controls are disabled. The only way to change the memory allocation is to do this in Hyper-V on the MobyLinuxVM. You must stop the VM to change this. However, this causes …

How’s it working now ? I just started trying to wrap my head around Docker, and how I can apply the use of this technology.

Hi , I am facing same issue. can u tell me how to change memory settings? in Hyper V manager ,able to see MobyLinux. what should be the next steps? Appreciate your help

it worked, but weird… decreasing memory allocation worked …

try switching to Windows containers

Not enough memory to start Docker

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friism (Michael Friis) January 4, 2017, 11:13pm 11

I’ve filed an internal issue for that.

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