Docker and Docker Compose on AMD OSX Hackintosh via Docker Machine

docker-compose-hackintosh.md

Introduction

Docker.app will complain about incompatible processor, so we will use Docker Machine.

Instalation

Download Docker for Mac (Docker.app). It contains some binaries that are necessary.

brew install virtualbox docker-machine

# Normally, those links are created automatically by running Docker.app,
# but it quits on us too early, so we need to do this manually
ln -s "/Applications/Docker.app/Contents//Resources/bin/docker-compose" /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
ln -s "/Applications/Docker.app/Contents//Resources/bin/docker-credential-desktop" /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-desktop
ln -s "/Applications/Docker.app/Contents//Resources/bin/docker-credential-osxkeychain" /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-osxkeychain

You can also use brew to install docker and doccker-compose and it should work without linking above.

Running

docker-machine create
eval $(docker-machine env)
docker run hello-world
docker-compose up

Thanks for all the pointers. Here's what I had to do, as unfortunately in Ventura 13.1, VirtualBox 6.1.40 kexts do not load, which means no luck when creating a host-only network adapter.

In order to fix this, you need to edit your config.plist file and disable kext signing from SIP as indicated at https://caizhiyuan.gitee.io/opencore-install-guide/troubleshooting/extended/post-issues.html#disabling-sip.

After doing so, proceed to reinstall VirtualBox 6.1.40, kexts will now load at startup and should enable minikube to create the host-only network adapter.

This works for me. Tested with Ventura 13.2.1 (22D68). Virtual Box 6.1.40. Disabled SIP.

Dinghy is working for me on my ryzentosh without any issue
https://jetstudy.net/docker/install-docker-in-amd-hackintosh-ryzentosh-system/

Dinghy is working for me on my ryzentosh without any issue https://jetstudy.net/docker/install-docker-in-amd-hackintosh-ryzentosh-system/

I tried it, but always return an error, when run the command to create an vm.

@dheerajv4855 you can also use the official https://github.com/docker/machine for that

Dinghy is working for me on my ryzentosh without any issue https://jetstudy.net/docker/install-docker-in-amd-hackintosh-ryzentosh-system/

I tried it, but always return an error, when run the command to create an vm.

Hi,
can you share what error you are getting ?

Dinghy is working for me on my ryzentosh without any issue https://jetstudy.net/docker/install-docker-in-amd-hackintosh-ryzentosh-system/

I tried it, but always return an error, when run the command to create an vm.

Hi, can you share what error you are getting ?

The solucion is

But that option is not showing up. I use Mac Os Ventura

Dinghy is working for me on my ryzentosh without any issue https://jetstudy.net/docker/install-docker-in-amd-hackintosh-ryzentosh-system/

I tried it, but always return an error, when run the command to create an vm.

Hi, can you share what error you are getting ?

The solucion is But that option is not showing up. I use Mac Os Ventura

you should allow virtualbox from security at time of installation
make sure you are using version 6.1.26
Uninstall and install again virtualbox and see if that works

one thing i would like to mention is SIP is disabled in my system
@namchuai has also a working virtualbox in ventura with SIP disabled
maybe that could be a reason

@mam

This works for me. Tested with Ventura 13.2.1 (22D68). Virtual Box 6.1.40. Disabled SIP.
@namchuai , were you enable to create an vm and start it with no errors?

@evenlee yes, I can

@evenlee yes, I can

Thanks for confirming, it's wired I cannot run any vm even minikube vm by start button in VM window, but I can use 'minikube start' to start the minikube vm. my value to disable sip is 6F020000(I also tried many values, same result, but this one seems perfect), and i am just upgraded to 13.3 from 12.6.

@evenlee sorry, I misunderstood your question. I tried with windows VM but got same error as your.

Edit: I can use Genymotion (which is a VM for Android) normally.

@evenlee sorry, I misunderstood your question. I tried with windows VM but got same error as your.

Edit: I can use Genymotion (which is a VM for Android) normally.

Thanks, it seems i have to stay on Monterey for now, maybe I will upgrade my build to 13900 when I got time to rebuild :).

Let me add that you can now use

brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
brew install --cask virtualbox6

To install the correct version of Virtualbox

Thanks for the guide. It works here (ryzentosh Ventura). However, there's an issue with VirtualBox 6.1.40 - it uses double the amount of RAM (e.g., if you allocate 4.0 GB, you can check Activity Monitor where you'll see ~8.0 GB used). The issue is documented here - https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19726

Not a deal breaker, but might be problematic for some. An older version - 6.1.2 r135662 - does not have the double memory issue, I am not sure, if it will work in this case. If someone tries it, please share feedback.