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I never really got to play extensively with Docker mainly because I have found the setup of OS X not quite friendly. While I understand the value of Docker, basically booting up a VMware/VirtualBox image was faster for my own use.

I'll have to give boot2docker a try to see if it is changing things. Having a good guide will definitely help.

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Give Docker Machine a try https://docs.docker.com/machine/

  Machine makes it really easy to create Docker hosts on your
  computer, on cloud providers and inside your own data center.
  It creates servers, installs Docker on them, then configures
  the Docker client to talk to them.

Kitematic is another option https://kitematic.com

For some reason, when using docker machine on a mac, the VM always fails to start and freezes at the "VM starting" phase. For this reason, I've had to switch back to boot2docker.

Super sorry to hear - we've had some issues with VirtualBox around networking and some setups we didn't anticipate -- Would be really appreciative if you'd give the latest 0.3.0 release candidate a whirl and see if it fixes the issue for you: https://github.com/docker/machine/releases.

Yes, It looks like it has been fixed. I tried creating multiple VMS ( dev, staging ) a few times, and It worked properly. Thanks.

Edit: I tried v0.3.0-rc2

along with docker-machine (I haven't actually used it yet), docker-compose is nice too! https://docs.docker.com/compose/

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