Docker Desktop Install on Windows

1. Enabled Windows Featured

Enabled Windows Featured

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Requirements Below

1. Check to See if Virtualization is enabled in your bios

2. Open Task Manager and See if Virtualization is running

2. If it is on continue to step 3. If it is not you need to enable it in bios.

   2.1 Heres a good Tutorial for all Motherboard Manufacturers.

BIOS Intel Tutorial

BIOS AMD Tutorial

3. Turn Windows Features On

4. Turn on

   4.1 Hyper-V 4.2 Virtual Machine Platform 4.3 Windows Hypervisor Platform 4.4 Windows Subsystem Linux

5. Reboot Your PC

2. Setting Up WSL2

Setting Up WSL2

1. Once Rebooted You can install your VM.
2. Go to MS Store and Search Ubuntu and select an install you want I WOULD RECOMMEND THE LATEST UBUNTU CURRENTLY ITS 22.04

3. Once installed open the Ubuntu 22.04 from the MS Store

4. Setting it up make a name (IT HAS TO BE ALL LOWER CASE)

5. Set a Password

6. Now Check What WSL Version in powershell your using

wsl --list --verbose

YOU NEED TO BE WSL2

7. Install WSL2 Update by running the Installer

WSL2 Update Kernel

8. Now Set the Default Kernel to WSL2 in powershell

wsl --set-default-version 2

9. Once that is done if it still has not updated to 2 run this command

wsl --update

TroubleShooting Installing WSL2

1. If your on Windows 10 and cannot enable or install WSL2 Use this installer

WSL2 Manual Install

2. If running the

wsl --set-default-version 2

then try to apply it directly to your linux. So if my install running the

wsl --list --verbose

it says the name add that in the code ie. Ubunut-22.04

wsl --set-version Ubuntu-22.04 2

3. Installing and Setting up Docker-Desktop

Installing and Setting up Docker-Desktop

1. Download Docker-Desktop
2. Click through the Installer
3. Once installed Run the Docker-Desktop (NOT IT MAY TAKE SOME TIME TO FIRST START DEPENDING ON YOUR HARDWARE)

Extra Docker Setups Configs

Limiting Dockers RAM Usage

1. Navigate to C:\Users\DESKTOP-USERNAME
2. Edit .wslconfig in any text editor

add these line to it. This will limit it to 4GB you can set any number from 2GB-64GB

[wsl2]
memory=4GB

3. Restart Docker and it should update to the correct limit.

Docker-Desktop Troubleshooting

Docker-Desktop Not Starting

1. If docker-desktop doesnt start after 10 Minutes ie. Showing the green background with the whale. Do these steps to fix it.

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You need to Fully remove Docker-Desktop RESTART COMPUTER with this important note.

3. Then re-install Docker Desktop

Docker-Desktop Not Saving Containers

If you are having issues with when you reboot and it not saving your containers or completely corrupting All you need to do is

1. You need to Fully remove Docker-Desktop RESTART COMPUTER
2. Then re-install Docker Desktop

This should fix the issue.