In a native Docker environment, you can mount /source
in a container host onto /destination
in a container by docker run -v /source:/destination
and access it from the container.
Well then, how can you mount C:\Source
in Windows onto /destination
in a container on Docker for Windows? You can't directly mount C:\Source
in the VM host into the container, of course.
As the first step, you have to set up C:\Source
as a shared folder for a VM when you create it with docker-machine. You can specify the shared folder with the --virtualbox-share-folder
option of the VirtualBox deriver as follows.
docker-machine create --driver virtualbox --virtualbox-share-folder=C:\Source:Source
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