From 12c85f3671e2bc981eb246e73daa7ecf37fb274f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Bray Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:27:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update windows.md With apologies (it wasn't clear from the contributing guidelines how this project feels about PRs for one or two word doc fixes). Signed-off-by: Erik M. Bray --- docs/installation/windows.md | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/installation/windows.md b/docs/installation/windows.md index ee62d4a6ec..64ed93939e 100644 --- a/docs/installation/windows.md +++ b/docs/installation/windows.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Client** to control the virtualized Docker Engine to build, run, and manage Docker containers. To make this process easier, we've designed a helper application called -[Boot2Docker](https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker) creates a Linux virtual +[Boot2Docker](https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker) which creates a Linux virtual machine on Windows to run Docker on a Linux operating system. Although you will be using Windows Docker client, the docker engine hosting the @@ -87,13 +87,14 @@ to your console window and you are ready to run docker commands such as ## Using Docker from PowerShell -Launch a PowerShell window, then you need to add `ssh.exe` to your PATH: +Launch a PowerShell window, then add `ssh.exe` to your PATH: $Env:Path = "${Env:Path};c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin" -and after running `boot2docker start` command it will print PowerShell commands -to set the environment variables to connect Docker running inside VM. Run these -commands and you are ready to run docker commands such as `docker ps`: +and after running the `boot2docker start` command it will print PowerShell +commands to set the environment variables to connect to the Docker daemon +running inside the VM. Run these commands and you are ready to run docker +commands such as `docker ps`: ![](/installation/images/windows-boot2docker-powershell.png)