Configuring boot2docker to use NFS on an OSX machine

boot2docker-nfs-osx.md

Configuring Boot2Docker to use NFS on an OSX based machine

• To improve the speed of Boot2Docker drastically, you will want to set it up to use NFS.

• You will need to do the following once on your host machine:

  • Add this to /etc/exports on your mac

    # BOOT2-DOCKER-BEGIN
    /Users 192.168.59.103 -alldirs -mapall=501:20
    # BOOT2-DOCKER-END
    

  • Run this command on your host machine

    sudo nfsd restart

• Then Start boot2docker and connect to the VM with ssh by doing the following:

  boot2docker up
  boot2docker ssh
  

• Within boot2docker do the following

  • Open the the /var/lib/boot2docker/bootlocal.sh file for editing with the following command:

  sudo vi /var/lib/boot2docker/bootlocal.sh

  • Then add the following content to that script.

    #!/bin/sh
    sudo umount /Users
    sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/nfs-client start
    sudo mount -t nfs -o rw --actimeo=2 192.168.59.3:/Users /Users
    

  • Then run the following

    sudo chmod +x /var/lib/boot2docker/bootlocal.sh
    

• To test, restart boot2docker, confirm then run df to confirm. You should see something like the following:

  192.168.59.3:/Users     XG    XG    XG  X% /Users
  

• You're all done. :)

I wrote a script to do this: https://gist.github.com/mattes/4d7f435d759ca2581347

As a note to anyone who comes across this, the above script by @mattes is for docker-machine. I wrote a similar script for boot2docker specifically: https://github.com/chiedojohn/boot2docker/blob/c99263633ba84771bcba63bb6b99c3854fe65ea8/scripts/enable_nfs.rb

Thank you for sharing this. The IP : 192.168.59.3, is referring to what? Thanks.