Kitematic: Kitematic w/ Docker Toolbox on Windows can't find Docker Machine

[carlin-q-scott]

Expected behavior

Kitematic should launch without issue

Actual behavior

1. Kitematic tries to connect to docker via a pipe and fails
2. I click "Use Virtualbox"
3. Kitematic instantly displays this error message:

Docker Machine is not installed. Please install it via the Docker Toolbox.

Information about the Issue

I installed Docker Toolkit which came with Kitematic.
Docker version 1.12.0, build 8eab29e
I am using a standard user account but I tried run Kitematic as admin with even less success.

[FrenchBen]

can you verify that docker-machine installed properly?
via a powershell run: docker-machine version

[carlin-q-scott]

Yes, I can use it from a command prompt. I even used it to manage some docker containers to make sure it was working. I did have to manually setup the environment variables it requires to run which is tracked in a different issue.

[FrenchBen]

Did you specify a different installation folder perhaps than usual?
In the code we set the following env var DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH which indicates where everything was installed.
Can you confirm that this env var was set properly?

[carlin-q-scott]

That environment variable was not set. Adding it has resolved the issue.

The problem with the installation of Toolbox is that it appears to use set rather than setx during installation, the former only sets an environment variable for the current shell session. I mentioned this in docker/toolbox#484 as well.

[FrenchBen]

Closing this in favor of the toolbox issue. Thanks for helping us troubleshoot this.

[popopome]

If any suggested solutions didn't work for you, try this.
Physically remove the settings by deleting a folder.

C:\Users\<YOUR_USER_NAME>\AppData\Roaming\Kitematic

[serkanodaci]

Thanks @popopome :)

[Tamiltam0007]

Encountered an error: Error: Command failed: C:\Program Files\Docker Toolbox\docker-machine.exe status default,open C:\Users\ELCOT.docker\machine\machines\default\config.json: The system cannot find the file specified., ......how to resolve this.....plz reply

[kiviev]

The same thing happened to me. At this moment I am using Windows Home.

At least in my case, what happened was that the environment variables DOCKER_MACHINE and DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH were not created for the system.

I just had to add them and it worked.

[kaiivo]

@popopome Thank you so much

[rizerzero]

The same thing happened to me. At this moment I am using Windows Home.

same thing for me, i had to add the parth to docker manually!