boot2docker bash command line is very slow

Question

Followed a few tutorials online regarding installing boot2docker ISO release v1.3.0 on a windows 7 enterprise machine. The same steps work fine on a mac!!! We've a number of custom docker files that I want to link and manage for our development environment. However, when I run the boot2docker from the desktop it can take either 3 seconds or a minute to load, when it does the command line can lag about 20-30 seconds behind what the user is typing.

I've tried reinstalling, cleaning anything from my PATH, increased the memory, played with the different boot2docker init settings but I'm unable to resolve the issue with the command line lag!

Has anybody experienced this issue?

Thanks.

J

Answer 1

Havent managed to find a solution. Removed all dot files, fresh install...same problem. However, there was once it started up where there was no lag on the command line. Work around is to use SSH using the default user/pass, at least I can progress with.

Thanks for your help.

J

Answer 2

It may be the same problem: boot2docker ssh was dramatically slow after installing Docker for Windows. I've found a solution replacing the default ssh client.

More details here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30344973/1231681