Is it possible to provision the host itself with docker-machine?

Question

Is it possible to provision the host itself with docker-machine for example with?

 docker-machine create \
 --driver generic \
 --generic-ip-address=localhost \
 --generic-ssh-key ~/.ssh/id_rsa \
 --generic-ssh-user root \
vm2

It seems that is doesn't work with this command.

Answer 1

I have got this working using the procedure here( https://sreeninet.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/docker-machine/ ). Look under this section "Native hosts(Update as of March 23, 2016):". The steps needs to be exactly followed as it took some time for me to get it right...