从 VMWare Workstation VM 访问在主机上运行的 Docker

Question

I have the following setup:

• Windows 10 Host (Hyper-V enabled)
• Docker Desktop installed on host
• VMWare Workstation Pro (16)
• Windows 10 VM - Docker CLI installed on vm

The Windows 10 VM is used as a dev environment, with project-specific stuff on there.

I also use the host as a development machine for other projects - so want to be able to use docker on both.

What I'd like to do is access the docker engine running on the host, from my VM By access docker, I mean use the docker cli to run containers, build images etc... setting DOCKER_HOST or something like that?

Is this possible? Or any other way?

So far, I've set my VM to use NAT networking and tried:

docker -H tcp://192.168.126.2:2375 images

Which returns

error during connect: Get http://192.168.126.2:2375/v1.40/images/json : dial tcp 192.168.126.2:2375: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

192.168.126.2 is the ip of the default gateway, from within the VM (so - my host?)

On the host machine, if I do docker -H tcp://0.0.0.0:2375 images I get the expected result.

On the host machine, I've also set:

"hosts": ["tcp://0.0.0.0:2375"],

within the docker engine config:

Answer 1

so what i would do and usually am doing is in VMware Workstation in Network editor I connect VMs to a bridge and select my main line that provides connectivity whether it is an Ethernet port or Wifi and associate it to lets say VMnet0. Then in VM settings I assign that VM's NIC to VMnet0 and that is how my VM and my host are on same LAN. I would not use NAT.