docker cannot start on windows

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Executing docker version command on Windows returns the following results  C  Projects gt  docker version Client   Version       1 13 0-dev  API version   1 25  Go version    go1 7 3  Git commit    d8d3314  Built         Tue Nov  1 03 05 34 2016  OS Arch       windows amd64 error during connect  Get http    2F 2F  2Fpipe 2Fdocker engine v1 25 version  open     pipe docker engine  The system cannot find the file specified  In the default daemon configuration on Windows  the docker client must be run elevated to connect  This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running   Running the diagnostics produces the following  C  Projects gt  wget https   github com Microsoft Virtualization-  Documentation raw master windows-server-container-tools Debug-  ContainerHost Debug-ContainerHost ps1 -UseBasicParsin   iex  Checking for common problems Describing Windows Version and Prerequisites      Is Windows 10 Anniversary Update or Windows Server 2016 608ms      Has KB3192366  KB3194496  or later installed if running Windows build 14393 141ms      Is not a build with blocking issues 29ms Describing Docker is installed   -  A Docker service is installed -  Docker  or  com Docker Service   134ms    Expected  value to not be empty    27           services   Should Not BeNullOrEmpty    at  lt ScriptBlock gt    lt No file gt   line 27      Service is running 127ms      Docker exe is in path 2 14s Describing User has permissions to use Docker daemon      docker exe should not return access denied 42ms Describing Windows container settings are correct   -  Do not have DisableVSmbOplock set to 1 53ms    Expected   0     But was    1     66                regvalue VSmbDisableOplocks   Should Be 0    at  lt ScriptBlock gt    lt No file gt   line 66      Do not have zz values set 42ms Describing The right container base images are installed error during connect  Get http    2F 2F  2Fpipe 2Fdocker engine v1 25 images json  open     pipe docker engine  The system cannot find the file specified  In the default daemon configuration on Windows  the docker client must be run elevated to connect  This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running    -  At least one of  microsoft windowsservercore  or  microsoft nanoserver  should be installed 129ms    ValidationMetadataException  The argument is null or empty  Provide an argument that is not null or empty  and then try the command again     ParameterBindingValidationException  Cannot validate argument on parameter  Property   The argument is null or empty  Provide an argument that is not null or empty  and then try the command again     at  lt ScriptBlock gt    lt No file gt   line 90 Describing Container network is created   -  Error occurred in Describe block 1 08s    RuntimeException  Cannot index into a null array     at  lt ScriptBlock gt    lt No file gt   line 119 Showing output from  docker info  Showing output from  docker version Client   Version       1 13 0-dev  API version   1 25  Go version    go1 7 3  Git commit    d8d3314  Built         Tue Nov  1 03 05 34 2016  OS Arch       windows amd64  Showing output from  docker network ls  Warnings  amp  errors from the last 24 hours Logs saved to C  Projects logs 20161107-084122 csv C  Projects gt

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I know this question was long ago but I found no proper explanation and solution, so hopefully, my answer is useful :)

Assuming you install Docker Toolbox on Windows, both docker and docker-machine commands will be available. Often, people get confused when to use either of these.

The docker commands are used only within a virtual machine to manage images. The docker-machine commands are used on the host to manage the Linux VMs.

So, please use docker-machine commands on your Windows machine. Use docker command inside your VM. To use the docker commands, for example, docker ps, you either can open Docker Quickstart Terminal or run these on your cmd/bash/PowerShell:

docker-machine run default /assuming default is your Linux VM/

docker-machine ssh default

This will start boot2docker and you will see the docker icon on the command line. Then you can use docker commands.

Good luck :)

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I am using window 10 and i performed below steps to resolve this issue    check Virtualization is enabled from taskmanager-- performance   Restarted the docker service  Install the latest docker build and restarted the machine  Make sure the docker service is running    Above steps helped me to resolve the issue

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Try resolving the issue with either of the following options   Option A  Start-Service  Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management  Start-Service  Hyper-V Host Compute Service    or  Option B   Open  Window Security  Open  App  amp  Browser control  Click  Exploit protection settings  at the bottom Switch to  Program settings  tab Locate  C  WINDOWS System32 vmcompute exe  in the list and expand it Click  Edit  Scroll down to  Code flow guard  CFG   and uncheck  Override system settings  Start vmcompute from powershell  net start vmcompute  Then restart your system

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After installing docker desktop into your pc  windows one   You may find up this location  What is actually does   It starts the Docker Daemon via your CLI  quot C  Program Files Docker Docker DockerCli exe quot  -SwitchDaemon

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I too faced error which says  quot Access is denied  In the default daemon configuration on Windows  the docker client must be run elevated to connect  This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running  quot   Resolved this by running  quot powershell quot  in administrator mode  This solution will help those who uses two users on one windows machine

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You can start Kitematic when you get this error  It will display a button to reset the VM and will fix the issue

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I got the same error for Docker version 19 03 12 and Windows 10  Resolved it by going through the below steps  Hope it helps others   Go to Windows Start - gt  Search Box  Type here to search   There enter  Services   Among the listed items  click Services app  Now search  Docker Desktop Service  in the Services window opened  Right click on it and Start the service  Its status should be changed to  Running   If step 2 gives error like  the dependency service failed to start   then start all dependency services  For me  I had to start a service called  Server   Double click  Docker Desktop  icon in desktop  Now you will see  Docker Desktop is running  in system tray  Now run the command  docker version  from Command Prompt or PowerShell  It should give clean output  If any issue in step 5  run Command Prompt or PowerShell as administrator   Above resolution assumes Docker is already installed and Hyper-V   Virtualization is enabled in your system

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I have faced same issue  it may be issue of administrator  so followed below steps to setup docker on      windows10       Download docker desktop from docker hub after login to docker Docker Desktop Installer exe file will be downloaded  Install Docker Desktop Installer exeusing Run as administrator -  Mark windows container during installation else it will only install linux container  It will ask for Logout after logging out and login it shows docker desktop in menu  After install  go to -  computer management -  Local users and groups -  Groups -  docker-user -  Add user in members  Run docker desktop using Run as administrator  Check docker whale icon in Notification tab  run command   docker version  Successfully using docker without any issue

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Faced the similar issue  having installed docker desktop on a Windows VM  running on WSL2  Solution  Updated the Windows to latest build and VMTools to the latest 11 2  version  fixed the issue  now docker is running non-stop

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The error is related to that part   In the default daemon configuration on Windows  the docker client must be run elevated to connect  You can do this in order to switch Docker daemon  With Powershell   Open Powershell as administrator Launch command   amp   C  Program Files Docker Docker DockerCli exe  -SwitchDaemon  OR  with cmd   Open cmd as administrator Launch command   quot C  Program Files Docker Docker DockerCli exe quot  -SwitchDaemon

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with the recent update of docker  I had an issue which was docker app hanged at startup  I resolved this by terminating wsl exe using taskmanager

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If none of the other answers work for you  try this  Open up a terminal and run  wsl -l -v   If you notice that there s a docker-desktop left hanging in the  Installing  state  close Docker  run powershell as adminstrator and unregister docker-desktop  PS C  WINDOWS system32 gt    wslconfig exe  u docker-desktop  Restart docker and hopefully it works  If it doesn t  try uninstalling docker first  then unregistering docker-desktop  and re-installing Docker  Source  https   github com docker for-win issues 7295 issuecomment-645989416

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I run in to the same problem  I solved this by enabling hyper-v    Enable virtualization in BIOS Install hyper-v

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I was getting same errors after an install on Windows 10  And I tried restarting but it did not work  so I did the following  do not recommend if you have been working in docker for awhile  this was on a fresh install    1  Find the whale in your system tray  and right click  2  Go to settings   Reset  3  Reset to factory defaults  I was then able to follow the starting docker tutorial on the website with Windows 10  and now it works like a charm

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My solution was pretty simple  I noticed that docker was running linux containers instead of windows containers  What i did is switch to windows containers by right clicking on the docker icon in the system tray and choosing Switch to Windows Containers

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Error Code      error during connect  Get   http    2F 2F  2Fpipe 2Fdocker engine v1 29 version  open       pipe docker engine  The system cannot find the file specified  In the   default daemon configuration on Windows  the docker client must be run   elevated to connect   This error may also indicate that the docker   daemon is not running    Solutions   1  For Windows 7 Command Window cmd exe   open cmd exe with run as administrator and execute following command   docker-machine env --shell cmd default   You will receive following output   SET DOCKER TLS VERIFY 1 SET DOCKER HOST tcp   192 168 99 100 2376 SET DOCKER CERT PATH C  Users USER NAME  docker machine machines default SET DOCKER MACHINE NAME default SET COMPOSE CONVERT WINDOWS PATHS true REM Run this command to configure your shell  REM  FOR  f  tokens     i IN   docker-machine env --shell cmd default   DO   i   Copy the command below and execute on cmd    FOR  f  tokens     i IN   docker-machine env --shell cmd default   DO   i   And then execute following command to control   docker version   2  For Windows 7 Powershell  open powershell exe with run as administrator and  execute following command   docker-machine env --shell powershell   Invoke-Expression   And then execute following command to control   docker version   3  If you reopen cmd or powershell  you should repeat the related steps again

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For me the issue was virtualization was not enabled   On windows 10  Go to task manager -  Performance -  CPU and you should see as section as  Virtualization   Enabled   If you do not see this option  it means that virtualization has not been enabled   Another interesting thing to note is you must have Hyper V enabled  However as I was using parallels desktop  I had to enabled to  Nested Virtualization  for Hyper V to be  truly enabled   So if your windows is a VM  check out the settings for Parallels  or whatever you re using  that nested virtualization is enabled

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One of my friends was having a similar issue  we tried this and it worked  Hyper-V  despite being listed under  quot Turn Windows features on or off quot  as being active  was not in fact active  This became apparent when running systeminfo under PowerShell  and seeing that the requirements were listed as met  which is not the output you would expect were Hyper-V actually running  Steps   Open  quot Turn Windows features on or off quot  If you are not sure how to do this please refer https   www howtogeek com 250228 what-windows-10s-optional-features-do-and-how-to- turn-them-on-or-off   1  Turn Hyper-V off  uncheck box  making sure all sub-components are marked as off  Hit  quot Ok quot  - and your machine will reboot  When your computer starts up again  open  quot Turn Windows features on or off quot  and turn Hyper-V back on  Your machine will reboot again   Now you can test by running docker hello-world image

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You can run  C  Program Files Docker Docker DockerCli exe  -SwitchDaemon and point Docker CLI to either Linux or Windows containers  This worked for me

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You need the admin privilege to run the service I had the similar issue  The problem goes away when I run command prompt   run as an administrator quot    and type  quot  docker version quot   C  WINDOWS system32 gt docker version Client  Docker Engine - Community Version            19 03 8 API version        1 40 Go version         go1 12 17 Git commit         afacb8b Built              Wed Mar 11 01 23 10 2020 OS Arch            windows amd64 Experimental       false Server  Docker Engine - Community Engine  Version           19 03 8 API version       1 40  minimum version 1 12  Go version        go1 12 17 Git commit        afacb8b Built             Wed Mar 11 01 29 16 2020 OS Arch           linux amd64 Experimental      false containerd  Version           v1 2 13 GitCommit         7ad184331fa3e55e52b890ea95e65ba581ae3429 runc  Version           1 0 0-rc10 GitCommit         dc9208a3303feef5b3839f4323d9beb36df0a9dd docker-init  Version           0 18 0 GitCommit         fec3683

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I am using Windows 7 with Docker Toolbox and to fix it just open Docker Quickstart Terminal        docker version Client   Version       17 05 0-ce  API version   1 29   Go version    go1 7 5  Git commit    89658be  Built         Fri May  5   15 36 11 2017  OS Arch       windows amd64      Server   Version       17 05 0-ce  API version   1 29  minimum version   1 12   Go version    go1 7 5  Git commit    89658be  Built         Thu May  4 21 43 09 2017  OS Arch       linux amd64  Experimental  false

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This is the final solution   its works for me       1  Find the whale in your system tray  and right click  2  Go to settings   Reset  3  Reset to factory defaults

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For win10 I had the same issue   error during connect  Post http    2F 2F  2Fpipe 2Fdocker engine v1 39 images load quiet 0  open     pipe docker engine  The system cannot find the file specified  In the default daemon configuration on Windows  the docker client must be run elevated to connect  This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running    The docker service appeared to work  Restarting did not help  Running the binary from the installation directory as administrator helped   In my case   run as administrator - gt  C  Program Files Docker Docker Docker for Windows exe

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1st start Powershell  as Administrator  that will also prevent the error you got from docker version      The try to start the docker service  start-service docker If that fails delete the docker pid file you will find with cd  env programfiles docker  rm docker pid Finally you should change HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Virtualization Containers VSmbDisableOplocks to 0 or delete the value

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Try running the following from an elevated command prompt   SET DOCKER CERT PATH C  Users  YourName   docker machine machines default SET DOCKER HOST tcp    yourDockerDeamonIp  2376 SET DOCKER MACHINE NAME default SET DOCKER TLS VERIFY 1 SET DOCKER TOOLBOX INSTALL PATH C  Program Files Docker Toolbox   You might also find that even without setting those env variables  running commands from the docker quick start terminal works no problem

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I had the same issue lately  Problem was Security Software Trendmicro  was blocking docker to create Hyperv network interface  You should also check firewall  AV software not blocking installation or configuration

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if you are in windows try this   docker-machine env --shell cmd default    FOR  f  tokens     i IN   docker-machine env --shell cmd default   DO   i   for testing try   docker run hello-world

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For me the error was resolved by stopping a virtual Ubuntu instance that d been running in Hyper-V   The system cannot find the file specified  In the default daemon configuration on Windows  the docker client must be run elevated to connect  This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running   Once Ubuntu instance had been stopped  and Docker Desktop had been restarted  my usual docker commands ran just fine    PS  I had the idea to try this because of an Error Log that Docker Desktop had helpfully compiled and offered to send to Docker Hub as user feedback    the log appeared to indicate that my machine was short on RAM  and Docker was failing for this very simple reason  Killing the Ubuntu instance solved that

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For me this issue resolved by singing in Docker Desktop

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For Installation in Windows 10 machine  Before installing search Windows Features in search and check the windows hypervisor platform and Subsystem for Linux  Installation for WSL 1 or 2 installation is compulsory so install it while docker prompt you to install it  https   docs microsoft com en-us windows wsl install-win10 You need to install ubantu version 16 18 or 20  from windows store  ubantu version 20 After installation you can run command like docker -version or docker run hello-world in Linux terminal  This video will help  https   www youtube com watch v 5RQbdMn04Oc amp t 471s

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Solved for me by running a docker desktop app  check-in notification  Setup if necessary     net start com docker service   The Docker for Windows Service service is starting  The Docker for Windows Service service was started successfully     docker version    net start com docker service   The requested service has already been started

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If you have installed docker on Windows 10 Pro with Hyper-V enabled and you are still not able to run Docker on Windows 10  then  as the error suggests  your docker daemon is not started    The following steps helped me to start docker successfully    Use command on cmd Admin mode   docker-machine restart default  Then you ll get a message something like      open C  User   User name    docker machine machines default config json    The system cannot find the file specified   Go to the docker icon which will be on your windows tray  bottom right corner of the desktop  Right click on the docker icon   Settings   Reset   Restart Docker    It will take few moments Then you ll see the following message      Docker is running with the green indicator    Note  If you already had Docker containers running on your system  then don t follow these steps  You may lose the existing containers

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Open C drive in powershell Or Git bash and run below command    Program Files Docker Docker DockerCli exe -SwitchDaemon

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In my case the WSL2 Linux-Kernel was missing  download  execute and restart  https   docs microsoft com de-de windows wsl wsl2-kernel Solved the problem

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I had the same problem   Starting the docker daemon resolved the issue  Just search for docker pressing windows key and click on  Docker Dekstop   Daemon should be running in a minute

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