docker installation on ubuntu in virtualbox, cannot pull images
Question
I have ubuntu 14.04.5 installed as guest os in virtualbox 5.0.26 running on windows 10. I am not aware of any issues with the ubuntu installation, it seems to run fine and has a bridged internet connection so gets its own ip.
I have installed docker following the directions on docker docs for linux . The installation goes fine without any errors and the docker daemon starts ok. Here is the docker info:
root@ubuntu-z9:~# docker info
Containers: 0
Running: 0
Paused: 0
Stopped: 0
Images: 0
Server Version: 1.12.0
Storage Driver: aufs
Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Dirs: 0
Dirperm1 Supported: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: overlay bridge host null
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Security Options: apparmor
Kernel Version: 4.2.0-27-generic
Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 10
Total Memory: 31.42 GiB
Name: ubuntu-z9
ID: 7MPO:OHFW:3OBJ:KUVX:3YCS:XP4U:RE6W:SFC3:O4KK:GJJU:M6WJ:HYLY
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
WARNING: No swap limit support
Insecure Registries:
127.0.0.0/8
The machine can see the internet fine and access hub.docker.com from a browser.
However, when I run the simple hello-world test the daemon hangs
root@ubuntu-z9:~# docker run hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
with a timeout.
I can run docker-machine without any issues on the host windows 10 machine so I believe the issue lies in my setup of the ubuntu machine in virtualbox and docker.
Here is the logging output of the docker daemon on the ubuntu guest machine:
$ docker pull hello-world
DEBU[0093] Calling POST /v1.24/images/create?fromImage=hello-world&tag=latest
DEBU[0093] Trying to pull hello-world from https://registry-1.docker.io v2
DEBU[0094] Increasing token expiration to: 60 seconds
ERRO[0494] Error trying v2 registry: error parsing HTTP 408 response body: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value: "<html><body><h1>408 Request Time-out</h1>\nYour browser didn't send a complete request in time.\n</body></html>\n\n"
ERRO[0494] Attempting next endpoint for pull after error: error parsing HTTP 408 response body: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value: "<html><body><h1>408 Request Time-out</h1>\nYour browser didn't send a complete request in time.\n</body></html>\n\n"
DEBU[0494] Skipping v1 endpoint https://index.docker.io because v2 registry was detected
ERRO[0494] Handler for POST /v1.24/images/create returned error: error parsing HTTP 408 response body: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value: "<html><body><h1>408 Request Time-out</h1>\nYour browser didn't send a complete request in time.\n</body></html>\n\n"
Any suggestions on a way forward to diagnose or fix the issue?
Many thanks.
1 answers
solution1
2 2016-08-13 17:07:10
It was a simple issue, undoubtedly documented somewhere but I missed it. I post an answer here in case someone else has the same.
The virtualbox os (ubuntu in my case) has to have a NAT network adapter and the NAT adapter has to have higher priority than a bridge adapter (if you have one). You don't need a bridged adapter to run docker (but if you want the virtualbox to have an ip on your local network then you do need to add a bridged adapter.)
VirtualBox configuration examples that work to run docker:
- VBox Adapter 1: NAT (eth0), VBox Adapter 2: Host-only Adapter (eth1)
- VBox Adapter 1: NAT (eth0), VBox Adapter 2: Bridged Adapter (eth1)
VirtualBox configuration examples that do not work to run docker:
- VBox Adapter 1: Bridged Adapter (eth0)
- VBox Adapter 1: Bridged Adapter (eth0), VBox Adapter 2: NAT (eth1)
Note in all four cases the virtualbox ubuntu os has access to the internet but docker can only pull images when NAT has priority over the bridged interface.
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