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I'm Windows 8.1 user, I got the same problem when I installing the Docker Toolbox.

Because I have a previous version of VirtualBox installed, so I uncheck the VirtualBox install option in the Docker Toolbox installer.

After the install and I run Docker Quickstart terminal and get the same problem looks like something went wrong in step 'looking for vboxmanage.exe'.

Look at the file D:Docker Toolboxstart.sh, there are some code fragment：

STEP="Looking for vboxmanage.exe"

if [ ! -z "$VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH" ]; then

  VBOXMANAGE="${VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH}VBoxManage.exe"

else

  VBOXMANAGE="${VBOX_INSTALL_PATH}VBoxManage.exe"

fi

The start.sh use $VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH and ${VBOX_INSTALL_PATH} Environment Variables to locate the VBoxManage.exe.

And I find my system variables VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH is

D:VirtualBox

and then, I change it to

D:VirtualBox

It works fine!

Or maybe you miss the VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH/VBOX_INSTALL_PATH Environment Variables.

This is my first answer on stackoverflow, I hope this will help you! Finally forgive my poor english ):

For me, the problem was that the DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALLPATH was only set for the user used to escalate priviligies at installation. When I run Docker Quickstart as my regular user, the DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALLPATH variable is empty, producing the error.
Setting DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALLPATH system wide solved the problem.

The same thing happened to me. At this moment I am using Windows Home.

At least in my case, what happened was that the environment variables DOCKER_MACHINE and DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH were not created for the system.

I just had to add them and it worked.

For me, it helped to start Docker Quickstart Terminal with admin privileges.

This works if you do not have admin rights:

> Setx DOCKER_MACHINE "C:Program FilesDocker Toolboxdocker-machine.exe"

> Setx DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH "C:Program FilesDocker Toolbox\"

> Setx VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH "C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox\"

The double backslash in the end makes sure that the variable is saved with one backslash as last character, needed in C:Program FilesDocker Toolboxstart.sh:

> echo %DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH%

C:Program FilesDocker Toolbox

Due to the relative DOCKER_MACHINE path definition on L10, it seems that start.sh will only run when you are inside its directory. I fixed it by modifying the target of the "Docker Quickstart Terminal" shortcut as follows:

C:ToolsGitgit-bash.exe -c "cd /c/tools/docker; ./start.sh"

Substitute the paths to GitBash and Docker Toolbox to match your installations. If your paths contain spaces, be sure to wrap them in quotes as usual. For example:

"C:ToolsGit Bashgit-bash.exe" -c "cd '/c/tools/docker toolbox'; ./start.sh"

For context, I had GitBash and VirtualBox already installed before installing Docker Toolbox, so I deselected those options during its install. I'm sure that if I went with the default options, this issue wouldn't have happened. That's probably why some folks on GitHub suggest uninstalling VirtualBox and re-installing Docker Toolbox. Don't do that, it's almost certainly unnecessary.

Simple solution: I thought I could just double click on it, but instead need to bring up a windows command prompt, CD to C:Program FilesDocker Toolbox , and type

sh start.sh

Running docker as Administrator solved the problem for me.

I personally solved this issue by adding the following property to my env (Windows Env variables):

DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH=C:Program FilesDocker Toolbox

as pointed out by the start.sh script of the Docker Toolbox installation.

Do you know how good an open-source program is?
You can actually investigate the issue yourselve, which could be way more precise.

1. please scroll the quickstart terminal up and see which error message you have got
   




2. open C:Program FilesDocker Toolboxstart.sh (Where you install docker toolbox) with text editer, e.g. sublime text
   and see the codes




3. if it is in step "looking for vboxmange.exe", it should be before STEP="Checking if machine $VM exists" and there are only 50 lines to read




4. As of 2018-11-27, the only two error that could be given in this step is from these lines, so investigate and find your error in it:

which are:

if [ ! -f "${DOCKER_MACHINE}" ]; then

      echo "Docker Machine is not installed. Please re-run the Toolbox Installer and try again."

      exit 1

fi



if [ ! -f "${VBOXMANAGE}" ]; then

      echo "VirtualBox is not installed. Please re-run the Toolbox Installer and try again."

      exit 1

fi

In which:

DOCKER_MACHINE="${DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH}docker-machine.exe"

And

if [ ! -z "$VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH" ]; then

  VBOXMANAGE="${VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH}VBoxManage.exe"

else

  VBOXMANAGE="${VBOX_INSTALL_PATH}VBoxManage.exe"

fi

So, check your environmental variables and echo it.

In my case, the reason is that DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH is an admin user variable:

So, run the quickstart terminal as admin user or put the variable under System variable would do the work

You can solve this reinstalling the VirtualBox, choosing repair mode.
C:Program FilesDocker Toolboxinstallersvirtualbox -> virtualbox.exe
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After finished the process, restart you machine and smile!