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gotgenes
gotgenes

Reputation: 40049

Copy or scp files to /var/lib/boot2docker for boot2docker VM managed by docker-machine

To use Docker on OS X, I'm using a boot2docker VM running in VirtualBox, managed by docker-machine. The boot2docker documents mention a persistence volume /var/lib/boot2docker. I would like to copy a file bootlocal.sh on the host filesystem over to the boot2docker VM.

I thought that docker-machine's scp command would work for this,

docker-machine scp bootlocal.sh dockerhost:/var/lib/boot2docker/

Unfortunately, this gives

scp: /var/lib/boot2docker/bootlocal.sh: Permission denied
exit status 1

Checking the file permissions, we can see that root is the only one with write permissions to this directory, by default:

docker@dockerhost:~$ ll -d /var/lib/boot2docker
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            29 May 31 17:40 /var/lib/boot2docker -> /mnt/sda1/var/lib/boot2docker/
docker@dockerhost:~$ ll -d /mnt/sda1/var/lib/boot2docker
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root          4096 May 31 17:40 /mnt/sda1/var/lib/boot2docker/

It is not possible to specify the user root as the one to use with docker-machine scp.

How does one copy files to /var/lib/boot2docker, preferably from the host machine?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1235

Answers (1)

gotgenes
gotgenes

Reputation: 40049

I could not find a way to do this using docker-machine scp. I did discover that, at least for OS X, the /Users directory of the host machine is mounted as a volume in the docker-machine VM, meaning that if the file is within the host file system under that directory, the VM can access it verbatim.

Knowing this, my workaround was to use docker-machine ssh to issue a cp command for the files I needed transferred.

docker-machine ssh dockerhost sudo cp /Users/username/path/to/bootlocal.sh /var/lib/boot2docker/

Upvotes: 1

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