Location of docker images downloaded by Docker (1.9.1) on Mac OS X

Question

Where are the docker images located once they are downloaded from docker hub in Mac OSX. For example if I run a command like:

docker run hello-world
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Answer 1

For someone who is using Docker toolbox (that uses docker-machine), the answers concerning boot2docker on Mac OS X is not valid. The docker-machine VM is called "default" and it exists in /Users/<username>/.docker/machine/machines/default/ directory.

Note: I have also added this answer to this question: Where are Docker images stored on the host machine? but I am answering here as well so that it's easier to find the answer for someone specifically looking for Mac OS X and new version of Docker.

Answer 2

To elaborate on how to open these folders in case you are getting now directory because it is a mounted on virtual host not your Mac regular volume

screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/tty 

ls -ltrh /var/lib/docker/volumes

Answer from here

If you want to control the volume from your mac, you can map it while you are creating the container

docker run -it --name voltest2 -v /path/to_mac/directory/MyHostDir:/mydata centos:latest /bin/bash

which will map a directory mydata on your container to a directory /path/to_mac/directory/MyHostDiron your mac

Answer 3

The docker images are stored in a different location on the Mac with Docker Desktop, different to where they are stored on other Linux systems.

Extract from Docker documentation (retrieved 25 March 2020 from https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/space/ )

Docker Desktop stores Linux containers and images in a single, large “disk image” file in the Mac filesystem. This is different from Docker on Linux, which usually stores containers and images in the /var/lib/docker directory.

On my Mac with MacOS 10.14.6 Mojave, running Docker version 19.03.8 that single large file can be found at:

~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/data/Docker.raw

Answer 4

In Docker Desktop version 2.2.0.4, check out the screenshot below.

Answer 5

There's some information on this here. You can check the location by running

docker info| grep "Docker Root Dir"