I have access to windows computers with my primary employer but this is for a side project. I looking at AWS and they dont let you use anything beyond windows 10 yet, which is fine, but I sort of want to get windows 11 users supported first. I was reading here that running a VM with virtualbox on my physical machine may run into issues when i install WSL2 for running docker, and I dont want to spend the money on an ISO all for it to break when running virtualbox.Īre there any good alternatives? I was looking at Azure and whatever I was looking at was going to cost me like $85 per month. Im struggling to find a cost effective windows 11 virtual computer to run tests with. After this, Docker will configure itself automatically. Type in your Macs password when prompted. Open the Docker app from the Applications folder. Open the downloaded file and drag the Docker.dmg file to your Applications folder.

Docker will be used in development to ensure that other team members who are on windows will be able to use the project as well. Download the latest version of Docker Desktop from Dockers site. I develop on mac, but i have a project that will span across multiple development teams on a volunteer project - for that i'm turning to docker. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path' That means that you don't have Virtual Box installed, so you need to cask -install it on your MacBook: brew install virtualbox -cask Once you have already installed VirtualBox, it's time to create a machine with the aforementioned command.

Installing docker on mac or virtualbox