I'm reluctant to make big changes to the OS X version on my laptop, since my hardware is old. But I still see the same problem indicated above (the boot2docker-vm machine fails to boot). I uninstalled everything and then tried downloading and installing from boot2docker download page, which installs VirtualBox, boot2docker, and docker all in one go. Launching the VirtualBox manager application I can see the boot2docker-vm machine 'Running', but looking at the log I see something like this which appears to indicate that the boot2docker-vm 'machine' failed to boot: 00:00:04.169546 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=1, bootseq=4231Ġ0:00:04.169711 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Floppy 0 failedĠ0:00:04.170101 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=2, bootseq=0423Ġ0:00:04.170490 Guest Log: BIOS: CDROM boot failure code : 0002Ġ0:00:04.170800 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from CD-ROM failedĠ0:00:04.171190 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=3, bootseq=0042Ġ0:00:04.171795 Guest Log: int13_harddisk: function 02, unmapped device for ELDL=80Ġ0:00:04.172304 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Hard Disk 0 failedĠ0:00:04.172706 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=4, bootseq=0004Ġ0:00:04.172991 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from LAN.Ġ0:00:04.191271 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0, flags=0x1Ġ0:00:06.446949 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from LAN failedĠ0:00:06.448852 Guest Log: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted. The first apparent issue appeared when creating the boot2docker-vm image: $ boot2docker initħ 21:38:13 Apply interim patch to VM boot2docker-vm ()ħ 21:38:13 Failed to modify VM 'boot2docker-vm': exit status 1

I first tried installing VirtualBox by downloading 'VirtualBox 5.0 for OS X hosts (amd64)' from the VirtualBox download page, and then installed boot2docker and docker via brew.

Installing docker on mac or virtualbox