

Starting the Container Runtime mounts a volume called “Fusion Container Storage” to the host’s desktop. Password:************* Container network has been prepared successfully using vmnet: vmnet9 Launching container runtime. Container storage has been prepared successfully under /Users/chogan/.vctl/storage Preparing container network, you may be prompted to input password for administrative operations.

OPTIONS: -h, -help Help for vctl ~ %įirst we need to start the Container runtime using the vctl system start command. Run 'vctl COMMAND -help' for more information on a command. system Manage the Nautilus Container Engine. run Run a new container from a container image. push Push a container image to a registry.

pull Pull a container image from a registry. execvm Execute a command within a running virtual machine that hosts container. exec Execute a command within a running container. create Create a new container from a container image. USAGE: vctl COMMAND COMMANDS: build Build a container image from a Dockerfile. Easy shell access into virtual machine that hosts container.Use 'vctl system config -h' to learn more. Use a lightweight virtual machine (CRX VM) based on VMware Photon OS to host a container.Push and pull container images between remote registries & local storage.~ % vctl vctl - A CLI tool for the Nautilus Container Engine powered by VMware Fusion vctl Highlights: Simply open a terminal on your host system and run vctl without any arguments to display the help output. Once that is up and running, you will be able to use vctl to do various container operations. This is very similar to how PodVMs are constructed in vSphere with Kubernetes (You can find more CRX details in this earlier blog post on Project Pacific). From what I understand, starting the Nautilus Container Engine will launch a very lightweight virtual machine (CRX) based on VMware Photon OS. I decided to take a closer look, and do a few simple container tasks just to see it in action. It allows you to work on OCI ( Open Container Initiative) containers from your desktop. This is a command line utility for the Nautilus Container Engine which is now part of VMware Fusion.

One of the new features that I noticed was the inclusion of a new vctl utility (IIRC, it became available first in v11.5.5.). If you don’t know about VMware Fusion, it is a VMware product that gives Mac users the ability to run guest virtual machines. Last week I updated my version of VMware Fusion to 11.5.6.
