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Im running a vServer with Ubuntu 16.04 installed. All packages seems up-to-date. My kernel-version is the following: Linux 4.4.0-042stab130.1 x86_64. I want to install docker-ce for development purposes. Now everytime I try to install it via apt, it crashes because it cannot start docker.

journalctl -u docker shows me the following error messages:

level=error msg="'overlay' not found as a supported filesystem on this host. Please ensure kernel is new enough and has overlay support loaded.
level=warning msg="Your kernel does not support oom control
level=warning msg="Your kernel does not support memory swappiness
level=warning msg="Your kernel does not support kernel memory limit
level=warning msg="Unable to find cpu cgroup in mounts
level=warning msg="Unable to find cpuset cgroup in mounts
level=warning msg="mountpoint for pids not found
Error starting daemon: Devices cgroup isn't mounted

So I have no experience with the features provided by overlay or overlay2. I just barely read about it, and that it should be supported by the linux kernel as version 4 and above.

I do not know what to do, to make docker work.

Help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Dominik Spiertz
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  • Got the same problem :( – Josef Büttgen Aug 29 '18 at 14:34
  • I contacted my server provider about the problem, and the thing is, that they shipped out the images for ubuntu with a kernel that does not include overlayfs. So I recently changed my product that supports newer features such as KVM and docker. I reinstalled all of my products and migrated all of them to docker. It was hard work, but it was worth it. – Dominik Spiertz Sep 02 '18 at 12:39

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