Cannot install docker on OS X Version 10.9.5 - docker

Question

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.
The first apparent issue appeared when creating the boot2docker-vm image:
$ boot2docker init
2015/07/27 21:38:13 Creating VM boot2docker-vm...
2015/07/27 21:38:13 Apply interim patch to VM boot2docker-vm (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12748)
2015/07/27 21:38:13 Failed to modify VM "boot2docker-vm": exit status 1
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=4231
00:00:04.169711 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Floppy 0 failed
00:00:04.170101 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=2, bootseq=0423
00:00:04.170490 Guest Log: BIOS: CDROM boot failure code : 0002
00:00:04.170800 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from CD-ROM failed
00:00:04.171190 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=3, bootseq=0042
00:00:04.171795 Guest Log: int13_harddisk: function 02, unmapped device for ELDL=80
00:00:04.172304 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
00:00:04.172706 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=4, bootseq=0004
00:00:04.172991 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from LAN...
00:00:04.191271 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0, flags=0x1
00:00:06.446949 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from LAN failed
00:00:06.448852 Guest Log: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.
I uninstalled everything and then tried downloading and installing from boot2docker download page, which installs VirtualBox, boot2docker, and docker all in one go. But I still see the same problem indicated above (the boot2docker-vm machine fails to boot).
I'm reluctant to make big changes to the OS X version on my laptop, since my hardware is old. But I'll try the installation sequence on a more modern machine and see if it works there.
Has anyone managed to make docker work on OS X Version 10.9.5?
EDIT (adding additional information which comments suggest might be relevant):
My machine has:
2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4Gb of RAM (1067 MHz DDR3)
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
OS X 10.9.5
I installed everything as the primary User (not root) on my system.
And the versions of everything which I installed are:
VirtualBox 4.3.30 r101610
boot2docker version 1.7.1
docker version 1.7.1

Answer 1

This issue on github might be of help (Latest version of virtual box 4.3.x works fine in the issue described). Though I would suggest to use docker-machine. Below are the steps (Installation):
$ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox dev
$ eval "$(docker-machine env dev)"
And then you can use docker commands as usual.

Answer 2

Some of the comments in the github issue suggested by nash_ag and this stackoverflow question pointed me in the right direction.
This is the sequence of steps I used to get VirtualBox, boot2docker, docker, and docker-machine working in my environment (where $USERNAME is my primary OS X User, who installed VirtualBox), with several wrong turns elided, and most output omitted:
$ rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/VirtualBox\ VMs/
$ boot2docker delete
(ran VirtualBox Uninstall script from my desktop)
...
$ brew tap caskroom/cask
...
$ brew update
...
$ brew install brew-cask
...
$ brew cask install virtualbox
...
$ VBoxManage -v
5.0.0r101573
$ boot2docker -v
Boot2Docker-cli version: v1.7.1
Git commit: 8fdc6f5
$ VBoxManage list vms
(nothing)
$ boot2docker init -v
...
$ boot2docker up
...
$ eval "$(boot2docker shellinit)"
(writes .pem files)
$ brew install docker-machine
...
$ docker-machine -v
docker-machine version 0.3.1 (HEAD)
$ docker-machine ls
NAME ACTIVE DRIVER STATE URL SWARM
$ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox dev
...
$ docker-machine ls
NAME ACTIVE DRIVER STATE URL SWARM
dev virtualbox Running tcp://192.168.99.100:2376
$ VBoxManage list vms
"boot2docker-vm" {99d5c5c1-e7cc-49bf-93c7-b0cbf626d62c}
"dev" {341fd11e-86f9-46ca-89e6-39ee78458a4b}
$ eval "$(docker-machine env dev)"
$ docker run -d -p 8000:80 nginx
...
$ curl $(docker-machine ip dev):8000
<!DOCTYPE html>
...
At this point things appear to be working well enough for me to use the "standard" docs/instructions for docker and docker-machine, so my original problem is solved.