Resolve “dial unix /var/run/docker.sock” error with Docker (Tech Tip #65)

I’ve played around with Docker configuration on Mac using boot2docker (#62, #61, #60, #59, #58, #57) and starting to play with native support on Fedora 20. Boot2docker starts as a separate VM on Mac and everything is pre-configured. Booting a fresh Fedora VM and trying to run Docker commands there gives:

Debugging revealed that Docker daemon was not running on this VM. It can be easily started as:

And then enable it to start automatically with every restart of the VM as:

Simple, isn’t it?

Enjoy!

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