Is Docker running within WSL or connecting back to Windows?
After successfully installing Docker in WSL, if I run standard Docker commands, I get connection errors. Runing with sudo or not yields the same result in all examples.
root@SUR002731165154:~# sudo docker info
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
root@SUR002731165154:~# sudo docker version
Client:
Version: 1.13.1
API version: 1.26
Go version: go1.7.5
Git commit: 092cba3
Built: Wed Feb 8 06:42:29 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
However, if I add -H localhost:2375 to the command I can run Docker no problem. Is Docker connecting to my localhost Windows 10 machine or is it running locally on WSL, or is doing a bit of both?
root@SUR002731165154:~# docker -H localhost:2375 version
Client:
Version: 1.13.1
API version: 1.26
Go version: go1.7.5
Git commit: 092cba3
Built: Wed Feb 8 06:42:29 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Server:
Version: 1.13.1
API version: 1.26 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.7.5
Git commit: 092cba3
Built: Wed Feb 8 08:47:51 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: true
root@SUR002731165154:~# docker -H localhost:2375 info
Containers: 11
Running: 0
Paused: 0
Stopped: 11
Images: 8
Server Version: 1.13.1
Storage Driver: overlay2
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Supports d_type: true
Native Overlay Diff: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: aa8187dbd3b7ad67d8e5e3a15115d3eef43a7ed1
runc version: 9df8b306d01f59d3a8029be411de015b7304dd8f
init version: 949e6fa
Security Options:
seccomp
Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.9.8-moby
Operating System: Alpine Linux v3.5
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 2
Total Memory: 1.934 GiB
Name: moby
ID: 4LYM:R5T5:6CPZ:Z2KC:YQ4R:NGN4:V6SR:DF7E:YPYO:7FHY:EQW5:2T7W
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): true
File Descriptors: 13
Goroutines: 21
System Time: 2017-02-28T18:54:13.7726687Z
EventsListeners: 0
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Experimental: true
Insecure Registries:
127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false
One Solution collect form web for “Is Docker running within WSL or connecting back to Windows?”
The Docker daemon can’t run under WSL as it doesn’t implement the necessary kernel ABI’s. If you’re running Docker for Windows, you are probably connecting to the Hyper-V virtual machine that it manages.
Because it’s on a different machine, you will not be able to mount WSL directories as Docker volumes, but you can build images from a WSL directory. This is because on a build, the client creates a tarball and sends it to the daemon.