Boot2docker Install: http://boot2docker.io/ export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://:2375 # Make a volume container (only need to do this once) $ docker run -v /data --name my-data busybox true # Share it using Samba (Windows file sharing) $ docker run --rm -v /usr/local/bin/docker:/docker -v /var/run/docker.sock:/docker.sock svendowideit/samba my-data # then find out the IP address of your Boot2Docker host $ boot2docker ip 192.168.59.103 Connect to the shared folder using Finder (OS X): Connect to cifs://192.168.59.103/data Once mounted, will appear as /Volumes/data Docker docker pull debian:wheezy Linux docker run -it -v ~/code:/data -d debian:wheezy Mac docker run -it --volumes-from my-data -d debian:wheezy