Docker Desktop For Windows 7

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Once you have installed Docker Desktop for Windows, you will find the Docker icon in your system tray. You can right click, and access the menu to change some of the settings. As you can see from screen below, we are currently running Linux containers, and can switch to Windows container by clicking the menu option. And it appears that Docker Desktop is very willing to simply blow away that VM. For instance I tried to change something in the JSON file in Docker Desktop Settings Docker Engine and it was apparently invalid. After Docker Desktop tried to restart a few times, I happened to be watching in Hyper-V Manager and it just deleted the VM. In Windows 10 home, docker desktop creates the VM under 'C: Users xxx AppData Local Docker' directory and it is this VM that contains the downloaded docker images. If you want to change the VM location from C: to a different directory you can do this by creating a junction on windows (prior to docker desktop installation) using a command like.

Desktop

Expected behavior

The Docker app should minimally the file location of images pulled, and in a normal case allow that location to be set.

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Actual behavior

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I cannot find any information on this for the Docker for Windows Beta

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Information

Docker Desktop For Windows 7

PS> docker version
Client:
Version: 1.11.0
API version: 1.23
Go version: go1.5.4
Git commit: 4dc5990
Built: Wed Apr 13 19:36:04 2016
OS/Arch: windows/amd64

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Docker Desktop For Windows 7

Server:
Version: 1.11.0
API version: 1.23
Go version: go1.5.4
Git commit: a5315b8
Built: Mon Apr 18 08:49:13 2016
OS/Arch: linux/amd64

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PS> docker info
Containers: 12
Running: 0
Paused: 0
Stopped: 12
Images: 21
Server Version: 1.11.0
Storage Driver: aufs
Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Dirs: 267
Dirperm1 Supported: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: null host bridge
Kernel Version: 4.4.6
Operating System: Alpine Linux v3.3
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 2
Total Memory: 1.955 GiB
Name: docker
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug mode (client): false
Debug mode (server): false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/