In this tutorial I will cover how I a docker-machine lab environment using VMWare Fusion. ***

Prerequisites

• Mac Computer.
• VMWare Fusion
• Docker Toolbox.

Create our lab environment

If you followed all the prerequisites you should now have a standard vmware and docker toolbox environment setup. Lets start with creating the docker-machine in VMWare Fusion.

Docker Machine

docker-machine create -d vmwarefusion docker
eval "$(docker-machine env docker)"

Network configuration

In my lab environment I chose to use the NAT (vmware8) network. Since I have several other virtual machines that I want to keep in the same environment.

I want my VM’s to have static IP’s then I can create records in /etc/hosts on my machine and osx vm’s.

Edit the dhcpd file with your favorit edit and add your hosts after the line ####### VMNET DHCP Configuration. End of “DO NOT MODIFY SECTION” ######.

sudo vim /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/vmnet8/dhcpd.conf

Want to use a CLI to check hosts MAC Address but during this lab lets use VMware Fusion App and check each hosts Network > Settings > Advanced Options and write down the MAC Address.

Added three host in my case, docker(munki) vm, osx client vm and a osx server vm.

host docker {
    hardware ethernet EE:EE:EE:EE:EE:EE;
    fixed-address 192.168.125.140;
}

Edit the hosts file with your favorit edit and add your hosts after the last line

sudo vim /etc/hosts

192.168.125.140 docker.example.com

Restart the vmnet, docker machine and your OSX VM’s.

export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/"
sudo vmnet-cli --configure
sudo vmnet-cli --stop
sudo vmnet-cli --start
docker-machine stop munki
docker-machine start munki

Thats it, you now have a docker-machine running in vmware and you are ready to start your journey into the fantastic world of docker.