It exposes the docker API on a socket in /var/tmp/docker.sock. The Docker for Mac application does not use docker-machine to provision that VM but rather creates and manages it directly.Īt installation time, Docker for Mac provisions an HyperKit VM based on Alpine Linux, running Docker Engine. If chosen, content from default is copied to the new Docker for Mac HyperKit VM, and your original default machine is kept as is. The install offers to copy containers and images from your local default machine (if one exists) to the new Docker for Mac HyperKit VM. Installing Docker for Mac does not affect machines you created with Docker Machine. Docker for Mac does not use VirtualBox, but rather HyperKit, a lightweight OS X virtualization solution built on top of amework in OS X 10.10 Yosemite and higher.
