I just installed Docker for Mac and Kinematic. It works fine and I can pull an image (with the command line or the Kinematic UI) and run a container (again with the command and the UI). But I can’t seem to find the physical location of the images on the host Mac OS X, where should they be? Cleaning…

I’m on mac OS X 10.12.3 using kitematic 0.13.1. My VM images are stored here: /Users/USERNAME/.docker/machine/machines See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32605383/location-of-docker-images-downloaded-by-docker-1-9-1-on-mac-os-x You should see a “default” folder here that is your base VM. If …

Hi I am running docker on Mac High Sierra ( version 10.13.3) . docker inspect on my container shows path is /var/lib/docker .But there is no such folder created. Could some one help with image location on Mac pls. And also why docker inspect shows different path? Am i missing something here ? Logs…

You are missing the subtlety from the previous replies that Docker does not run natively a Mac because the macOS kernel isn’t compatible (i.e., BSD vs Linux). Docker is actually running in a virtual machine using HyperKit. The Docker vm disc image defaults to being in either: $HOME/Library/Containe…

[44%20PM] The default physical location is $HOME/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/Docker.qcow2 as @badonk mentioned. But you can change and specify a new “Disk Image Location” using Docker Desktop on your Mac as follows: Docker Desktop -> Preferences -> Disk […

@badonk and @rofrano : As of this morning, 2020/01/28, I took some time to cruise the internet and can reveal that the location has changed yet again… with the current Docker Desktop and Docker Enterprise innards, and running under MacOS Catalina, the VM images are stored at: ~/Library/Containers/c…

Mine seems to be here: /Users/USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/data/Docker.raw But my question is, where is the data kept for volumes? How do I access the volumes in the Linux VM on macOS to see the volumes in docker and access the files? And where do I place docker-compose…

[image] mrtargaryen2: But my question is, where is the data kept for volumes? You can use the docker inspect command to see the exact location of the data within the VM. You can also use the docker volume ls command to list the volumes. For example: These are the volumes on my Mac right now: …

Wow, thank you very much for the detailed reply, I appreciate it. I will look at this closely tomorrow as it’s almost 1am here. And yes, I need to edit some files, so I will learn all about file system mounts, thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

You’re welcome. Sorry for not giving you an example of using a filesystem mount. I should have done that. To use your own folder you can do something like this: docker run --rm -it -v /Users/USERNAME/mydata:/mydata -w /mydata ubuntu bash That will share the folder /Users/USERNAME/mydata inside th…

Where are images stored on Mac OS X?

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badonk (Badonk) July 1, 2016, 8:23pm 2

It depends on the driver being used, but the default is: $HOME/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/Docker.qcow2

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Where are images stored on Mac OS X?

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