Docker Installation

1. Enable Virtualization (for 'HP')

• On your laptop/pc and press esc. (then you got this page) Press f10 for BIOS setup

• In advance section, go to Device Configurations

• Tick Virtualization Technology (Vtx)

• Then confirm that 'virtualizaion is enabled'

• Right click task bar and select Task Manager, then go to Performance

• Congratulations if virtualization is enabled!

2. On Windows Features

• Go to Windows then type "windows fetaures on or off", open it.

• Tick the following:
  • Containers
  • Hyper-V
  • Virtual Machine Platform
  • Windows Hypervisor Platform
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux

3. Install WSL

• type powershell in windows and right click it and choose run as adminstrator.

• Run the following commands:

  • wsl --list --online
  • wsl --install -d Ubuntu-24.04

• the you got the new terminal window.
  • give username and password

4. Upgrade version from WSL 1 to WSL 2

• After checking that you have version-1, run the following commands:

  • wsl --install
  • wsl --set-version
  • wsl --set-version Ubuntu-24.04 2

• Run wsl.exe --install / wsl.exe --update (when WSL 2 requires an update to its kernel component)

• Now, re-run the wsl --set-version Ubuntu-24.04 2 for conversion and also run wsl -l -v to check the version.

5. Install Docker Dekstop

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• After downloading the docker dekstop, install it and sign-in with your google account.

• Finally, you got docker dekstop!

6. Check docker version with docker -v and docker version

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