Docker For Mac Machine Iphone

This is benefitial if you containerise a legacy system that is heavily dependent on the host IP. The host network configuration only works as expected on Linux systems, beacuase Docker uses a virtual machine under the hood on Mac and Windows, thus the host network in these cases refers to the VM rather than the real host itself. Both Docker Desktop for Mac and Docker Desktop for Windows include the newestversion of Docker Machine, so when you install either of these, you getdocker-machine. The new solutions come with their own native virtualization solutions ratherthan Oracle VirtualBox, so keep the following considerations in mind when usingMachine to create local VMs.

This is a short guide explaining how to run GUI applications from within Docker on Mac. This uses XQuartz to enable to set the DISPLAY variable within the container.

Install XQuartz

You can install XQuartz using homebrew with brew cask install xquartz or directly from the website here. At the time of writing, I had 2.7.11 installed on my machine with OSX El Capitan. After installing XQuartz restart your machine.

Install Docker for Mac

Install docker using brew cask install docker or directly from the website here.

Run XQuartz

Docker For Mac Machine Ip Address

Start XQuartz from command line using open -a XQuartz. In the XQuartz preferences, go to the “Security” tab and make sure you’ve got “Allow connections from network clients” ticked:

Host Machine IP

IP=$(ifconfig en0 | grep inet | awk '$1'inet' {print $2}') should set the IP variable as the ip of your local machine. If you’re on wifi you may want to use en1 instead of en0, check the value of the variable using echo $IP.

Now add the IP using Xhost with xhost + $IP. If the xhost command is not found check /usr/X11/bin/xhost as that might not be in your path.

Docker For Mac Machine Ip Address

Running a container

You can now try running firefox in your container with:

or run octave using: