I am new to Docker. I'm trying to work with it on windows. I have Windows 10 Family so I installed Linux Bash Shell. When I run this command:
$ docker run hello-world
I get :
docker: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?.
And when I run
$ systemctl status docker
I get
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate
For anyone using WSL2 and seeing an identical error message, look at https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/457#issuecomment-511495846
Powershell
wsl -l -v
NAME STATE VERSION
* Ubuntu-20.04 Running 2
Ubuntu
$ docker run hello-world
docker: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?.
$ systemctl status docker
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/docker start
* Starting Docker: docker [ OK ]
$ sudo docker run hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
b8dfde127a29: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:308866a43596e83578c7dfa15e27a73011bdd402185a84c5cd7f32a88b501a24
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest
Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.
It seems like you wont be able to use docker in Windows 10 family, since docker Desktop requires specific Windows version, as said in official documentation.
System Requirements
Windows 10 64-bit: Pro, Enterprise, or Education (Build 15063 or later).
What you can try is to run linux-based virtual machine on you Windows host, and run docker inside of it. But even if you succeeded, you will lose all advantages of the docker in resources consumption.
The issue here is that from the error message, it states that you are using WSL (Windows Sub-system for Linux Version 1), this version did not have Docker support as it is not a full Linux kernel, but an translation layer between a Linux user-space and then translated to Windows Kernel commands.
Running the wsl --list -v command will show you the version you are using:
You can install WSL version 2, which has a Microsoft provided full Linux Kernel running using Hyper-V infrastructure (but not full Hyper-V). This way it runs on Windows Home, Education, and Professional. And here you can run a Linux Instance and the install Docker.