I have been experimenting with docker on windows.
I started with using chocolatey to install boot2docker.
Currently docker requires ssh on windows (boot2docker ssh)
The advice on the following page got me past the following error:
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Is ‘docker -d’ running on this host?
The problem was the ports being used by virtualbox. I reinstalled and set up the port forwarding and everything now works.
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