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To improve the speed of Boot2Docker drastically, you will want to set it up to use NFS.
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You will need to do the following once on your host machine:
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Add this to /etc/exports on your mac
# BOOT2-DOCKER-BEGIN /Users 192.168.59.103 -alldirs -mapall=501:20 # BOOT2-DOCKER-END
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Run this command on your host machine
sudo nfsd restart
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Then Start boot2docker and connect to the VM with ssh by doing the following:
boot2docker up boot2docker ssh
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Within boot2docker do the following
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sudo vi /var/lib/boot2docker/bootlocal.sh
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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
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Then run the following
sudo chmod +x /var/lib/boot2docker/bootlocal.sh
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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
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You're all done. :)
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Configuring boot2docker to use NFS on an OSX machine
Thank you for sharing this. The IP : 192.168.59.3, is referring to what? Thanks.
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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