Description
I am using Docker version 1.12.5 on Windows 10 via Hyper-V and want to use container executables as commands in the current path. I built a Docker image that is running fine, but I have a problem to mount the current path. The idea is to create an alias and do a docker run --rm [...] command so that it could be used system-wide in the current directory.
Setup
I have a drive E with a folder "test" and in there a folder called "folder on windows host" to show that the command is working. The Dockerfile create the directory /data, defines it as VOLUME and WORKDIR.
Having E:\test as the current directory in PowerShell and executing the Docker command with an absolute path, I can see the content of E:\test:
PS E:\test> docker run --rm -it -v E:\test:/data mirkohaaser/docker-clitools ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 4 11:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 5 12:17 folder on windows host
Problem
I want to use the current directory and not an absolute notation. I could not use pwd in the volume because of different error messages:
Trying with ($pwd)
PS E:\test> docker run --rm -it -v ($pwd):/data mirkohaaser/docker-clitools ls -la
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe: Error parsing reference: ":/data" is not a valid repository/tag.
See 'C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe run --help'.
Trying with /($pwd)
PS E:\test> docker run --rm -it -v /($pwd):/data mirkohaaser/docker-clitools ls -la
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe: Error parsing reference: "E:\\test" is not a valid repository/tag.
See 'C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe run --help'.
Trying with \´pwd\´
PS E:\test> docker run --rm -it -v ´$pwd´:/data mirkohaaser/docker-clitools ls -la
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe: Error response from daemon: Invalid bind mount spec "´E:\\test´:/data": invalid mode: /data.
See 'C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe run --help'.
Trying with `pwd`
PS E:\test> docker run --rm -it -v `$pwd`:/data mirkohaaser/docker-clitools ls -la
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe: Error response from daemon: create $pwd: "$pwd" includes invalid characters for a local volume name, only "[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]" are allowed.
See 'C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe run --help'.
What is the correct syntax of mounting the current directory as a volume in Docker on Windows 10?
In Windows Command Line (cmd), you can mount the current directory like so:
docker run --rm -it -v %cd%:/usr/src/project gcc:4.9
In PowerShell, you use ${PWD}, which gives you the current directory:
docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/usr/src/project gcc:4.9
On Linux:
docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/usr/src/project gcc:4.9
Cross Platform
The following options will work on both PowerShell and on Linux (at least Ubuntu):
docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/usr/src/project gcc:4.9
docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/usr/src/project gcc:4.9
This works for me in PowerShell:
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/data alpine ls /data
Command prompt (Cmd.exe)
When the Docker CLI is used from the Windows Cmd.exe, use %cd% to mount the current directory:
echo test > test.txt
docker run --rm -v %cd%:/data busybox ls -ls /data/test.txt
Git Bash (MinGW)
When the Docker CLI is used from the Git Bash (MinGW), mounting the current directory may fail due to a POSIX path conversion: Docker mounted volume adds ;C to end of windows path when translating from linux style path.
Escape the POSIX paths by prefixing with /
To skip the path conversion, POSIX paths have to be prefixed with the slash (/) to have leading double slash (//), including /$(pwd)
touch test.txt
docker run --rm -v /$(pwd):/data busybox ls -la //data/test.txt
Disable the path conversion
Disable the POSIX path conversion in Git Bash (MinGW) by setting MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 environment variable at the command level
touch test.txt
MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/data busybox ls -la /data/test.txt
or shell (system) level
export MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1
touch test.txt
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/data busybox ls -la /data/test.txt
Open Settings on Docker Desktop (Docker for Windows).
Select Shared Drives.
Select the drive that you want to use inside your containers (e.g., C).
Click Apply. You may be asked to provide user credentials.
The command below should now work on PowerShell (command prompt does not support ${PWD}):
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/data alpine ls /data
IMPORTANT: if/when you change your Windows domain password, the mount will stop working silently, that is, -v will work but the container will not see your host folders and files. Solution: go back to Settings, uncheck the shared drives, Apply, check them again, Apply, and enter the new password when prompted.
For Git Bash for Windows (in ConEmu), the following works for me (for Docker Windows containers):
docker run --rm -it -v `pwd -W`:c:/api microsoft/dotnet:2-runtime
Note the backticks/backquotes around pwd -W!
With all other variations of PWD I've tried I've received: "Error response from daemon: invalid volume specification: ..."
Update:
The above was for Docker Windows containers, for Linux containers use:
docker run --rm -it -v `pwd -W`:/api -p 8080:80 microsoft/aspnetcore:2
Here is mine which is compatible for both Win10 docker-ce & Win7 docker-toolbox. At las at the time I'm writing this :).
You can notice I prefer use /host_mnt/c instead of c:/ because I sometimes encountered trouble on docker-ce Win 10 with c:/
$WIN_PATH=Convert-Path .
#Convert for docker mount to be OK on Windows10 and Windows 7 Powershell
#Exact conversion is : remove the ":" symbol, replace all "\" by "/", remove last "/" and minor case only the disk letter
#Then for Windows10, add a /host_mnt/" at the begin of string => this way : c:\Users is translated to /host_mnt/c/Users
#For Windows7, add "//" => c:\Users is translated to //c/Users
$MOUNT_PATH=(($WIN_PATH -replace "\\","/") -replace ":","").Trim("/")
[regex]$regex='^[a-zA-Z]/'
$MOUNT_PATH=$regex.Replace($MOUNT_PATH, {$args[0].Value.ToLower()})
#Win 10
if ([Environment]::OSVersion.Version -ge (new-object 'Version' 10,0)) {
$MOUNT_PATH="/host_mnt/$MOUNT_PATH"
}
elseif ([Environment]::OSVersion.Version -ge (new-object 'Version' 6,1)) {
$MOUNT_PATH="//$MOUNT_PATH"
}
docker run -it -v "${MOUNT_PATH}:/tmp/test" busybox ls /tmp/test
Other solutions for Git Bash provided by others didn't work for me. Apparently there is currently a bug/limitation in Git for Windows. See this and this.
I finally managed to get it working after finding this GitHub thread (which provides some additional solutions if you're interested, which might work for you, but didn't for me).
I ended up using the following syntax:
MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/usr/src/project gcc:4.9
Note the MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 in front of the docker command and $(pwd) - round brackets, lower-case pwd, no quotes, no backslashes.
Also, I'm using Linux containers on Windows if that matters..
I tested this in the new Windows Terminal, ConEmu and GitBash, and all of them worked for me.
This command should fix it.
docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:c:\data mirkohaaser/docker-clitools
{PWD} is the host current folder. after the : is the container folder.
If the mounting is correct then files will be listed in the director c:\data in the container.
You need to swap all the back slashes to forward slashes
so change
docker -v C:\my\folder:/mountlocation ...
to
docker -v C:/my/folder:/mountlocation ...
I normally call docker from a cmd script where I want the folder to mount to be relative to the script i'm calling so in that script I do this...
SETLOCAL
REM capture the path to this file so we can call on relative scrips
REM without having to be in this dir to do it.
REM capture the path to $0 ie this script
set mypath=%~dp0
REM strip last char
set PREFIXPATH=%mypath:~0,-1%
echo "PREFIXPATH=%PREFIXPATH%"
mkdir -p %PREFIXPATH%\my\folder\to\mount
REM swap \ for / in the path
REM because docker likes it that way in volume mounting
set PPATH=%PREFIXPATH:\=/%
echo "PPATH=%PPATH%"
REM pass all args to this script to the docker command line with %*
docker run --name mycontainername --rm -v %PPATH%/my/folder/to/mount:/some/mountpoint myimage %*
ENDLOCAL
If you are still having this issue in 2022, you can install docker in windows with WSL(Windows Subsystem for Linux). Then you can go on Microsoft Store and install one of the Linux project like Ubuntu, Debian or Kali Linux.
On Docker Desktop go to setting -> WSL integration
and enable your version of Linux.
On VS Code open new WSL terminal and execute the Linux command there.
If you want to pass your project directory with the DockerfileRunArguments property to your debug container, then pwd won't work.
<PropertyGroup>
<!-- Will result in `` -->
<DockerfileRunArguments>-v "$(pwd):/data:ro"</DockerfileRunArguments>
</PropertyGroup>
Use $(MSBuildProjectDirectory) instead of $(pwd)
<PropertyGroup>
<!-- Will result in the full path to your project directory -->
<DockerfileRunArguments>-v "$(MSBuildProjectDirectory):/data:ro"</DockerfileRunArguments>
</PropertyGroup>
Reference: MSDocs - Visual Studio Container Tools
PowerShell on Windows 10 Pro
The above solutions did not work for me as plain pwd gives a description in the response:
Path
----
C:\Users\barnaby
It needs outputting as a variable in the script $(pwd) but then docker complains invalid reference format
The solution is to wrap the whole switch parameters in double quotes and this works for me:
docker run --rm -v "$(pwd):/app" php:7.4-cli php /app/hello.php
docker run --rm -v /c/Users/Christian/manager/bin:/app --workdir=/app php:7.2-cli php app.php
Git bash
cd /c/Users/Christian/manager
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/app --workdir=/app php:7.2-cli php bin/app.php
echo ${PWD}
result:
/c/Users/Christian/manager
cmd or PowerShell
cd C:\Users\Christian\manager
echo ${PWD}
result:
Path
---- C:\Users\Christian\manager
as we see in cmd or PowerShell $ {PWD} will not work
Tks all, idk why, but now its working
I learn to use docker. I try mount a host directory in a Docker container: >docker run -it -v /Users/Kell/Desktop/data:/home/data 77
And this is error: docker: Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/Users/Kell/Desktop/data': mkdir /Users: file exists.
**I use windows and docker 20.10.12, 77 is imageID **
I tried in another disk and tried many ways but still not working. Can u help me ?
If you learning docker from scratch it is recommended to use --mount and not -v anymore: Mount > v
The syntax of --mount and -v differs, so here you' find both: How to mount
Path style in Windows depends on the console you are using. Some are just working in one and not in another.
Windows-Style: docker run --rm -ti -v C:\Users\user\work:/work alpine
Pseudo-Linux-Style in Windows: docker run --rm -ti -v /c/Users/user/work:/work alpine as well as //c/
Inside WSL: docker run --rm -ti -v /mnt/c/Users/user/work:/work alpine
See: Path conversion in Windows
Suddenly my docker run stopped working last night, which was working before. docker build is working fine, but I get the below error when trying to run the container.
Command
docker run -it --rm -p 9001:4200 -v ${pwd}/src:/app/src angularclient
Error message
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe: Error
response from daemon: Mount denied: The source path
"E:/Karthik/angular/src" doesn't exist and is not known to Docker. See
'C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe run --help'.
I tried running the following command in the power shell:
refreshenv
set MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1
set COMPOSE_CONVERT_WINDOWS_PATHS=1
try this:
docker run -it --rm -p 9001:4200 -v E:/Karthik/angular/src:/app/src angularclient
It seems that you can't use ${pwd} and ./ on win cmd and Git Bash. You can only use absolute paths.
Add this on your ~/.bash_profile:
export MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1
Add / to prefix of path as below.
docker run -it --rm -p 9001:4200 -v /${pwd}/src:/app/src angularclient
Ensure the drive is shared in Docker settings "Shared Drives".
Create the full path if it doesn't already exist.
Add trailing / to the path.
What's the difference between these two docker run commands and why one is working and the other does not.
Working Command
docker run --publish=7474:7474 --volume=$HOME/neo4j_test/data:/data neo4j
Not Working
docker run --publish=7474:7474 --volume=C:/Users/USERNAME/neo4j_test/data:/data neoj
docker run --publish=7474:7474 --volume=C:\Users\USERNAME\neo4j_test\data:/data neo4j
Error for these commands
C:\Program Files\Docker Toolbox\docker.exe: Error response from daemon: Invalid bind mount spec "C:UsersUSERNAMEneo4j_testdata:/data": invalid mode: /data.
See 'C:\Program Files\Docker Toolbox\docker.exe run --help'.
In the non-working commands, I just replaced $HOME with the absolute path for my user profile folder C:/Users/USERNAME
UPDATE
I did inspect the value for $HOME by executing echo $HOME on Windows Powershell. And it is in fact C:\Users\USERNAME. I also did look at the link that #Titouan Freville has commented. So I used the command
docker run --publish=7474:7474 --volume=/c/Users/USERNAME/neo4j_test/data:/data neo4j
isntead of
docker run --publish=7474:7474 --volume=C:/Users/USERNAME/neo4j_test/data:/data neoj
and it is working now. Right now I'm just wondering where the transformation of $HOME from C:\Users\USERNAME to /c/Users/USERNAME happens
For anyone still having this problem with Docker-for-Windows, here are the 2 solutions that work:
Prefix your command
with MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1
In full: MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 docker run -v /c/path:/path
Use double-slashes
// at the beginning
In full: docker run -v //c/path:/path
Source: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/24029#issuecomment-250412919
To close the subject. Here is the solution ;) docker toolbox mount file on windows
Also, the interpolation of $HOME by docker on windows have to be compatible with it, so it should transform it by himself when you call it in docker command.
I'm using docker container with ubuntu:14.04 and some C++ application that I compiled inside docker container.
Is it possible to run application that is inside container from host OS(in my case Win 7)?
Something like:
docker run <path-to-binary>/mybinary -f 10 -o output.txt
UPDATE:
Yes, it's possible
docker run -it <my-image> <path-to-binary>/mybinary
So ideally I want application inside docker will be just like native applications on Windows host OS.
Also is it possible to specify files and folder in host OS as input arguments to application that docker container can't see?
UPDATE:
I tried to mount shared folder at container start
docker run -v C:\shared_with_VM:/temp my_image
and also
docker run -v "C:\shared_with_VM":/temp my_image
But I get error:
C:\Program Files\Docker Toolbox\docker.exe: Error response from daemon: Invalid
bind mount spec "C:\\shared_with_VM:/temp": invalid mode: /temp.
See 'C:\Program Files\Docker Toolbox\docker.exe run --help'.
As said here right path format on Windows should be
docker run -v /c/shared_with_VM:/temp my_image
I am not sure if I correctly understand your question...
You can mount folders from your host to the container to make it accessible from within your container:
docker run -v /host/folder:/container/ -it <image> <executable> <arguments>
For example:
docker run -v /tmp:/tmphost -it ubuntu ls -al /tmphost
# or in Windows
docker run -v //c/Users/mrgloom/Desktop/data:/tmphost -it ubuntu ls -al /tmphost
This creates the folder /container/ in your container and links it with /host/folder. You can then bidirectonally read / write files inside these folders. Your binary has to point to the input file, which might be located in /container/input.txt