Docker and Windows - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time

Question

I installed the docker toolbox but when i try to create a container it gives me that error. The version is returned but it's not possible to create a container.

OS: Windows 10 Home

ERROR: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 07 '22 at 10:00

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Other resources suggested to deinstall and install docker for windows or the toolbox again, or said you couldn't run both at the same time. But that was not the problem for me. Turns out I just needed to update VirtualBox 6.0 to 6.1.

TLDR; Is your docker vm even running? Are you using a troublesome VirtualBox version? Update!

edited Sep 07 '22 at 10:00

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answered Aug 13 '20 at 08:22

Noobinaloop

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Hi! Thanks for the answer. It's been a while since I had this problem and I gave up back then. But I'll try it again! Thanks – Laura Beatris Aug 13 '20 at 10:30
I had this problem today and it was because I stupidly forgot to start the docker vm. – Peter Olson Jan 26 '21 at 16:39
In my case it was second docker-compose running. Stopping it was not enough - I had to also restart Windows. – pmaruszczyk Sep 07 '22 at 10:01

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '21 at 13:32

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I had the same problem with Docker Desktop (Year 2021). None of the solutions worked. Finally I tried the following and it worked.

Remove the following environment variable from windows DOCKER_HOST
In docker desktop settings enable the following option Expose daemon on tcp://localhost:2375 without TLS

answered Oct 07 '21 at 13:32

Jinu Joseph Daniel

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That worked like charm, thank you so much. And I didn't even exposed daemon. removing the DOCKER_HOST only did the trick :) – Naveen Goyal Feb 01 '22 at 16:09
Good to know it helped. – Jinu Joseph Daniel Feb 03 '22 at 13:05

Docker and Windows - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time

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