Change Docker native images location on Windows 10 Pro

Docker Desktop now can use WSL 2 Backend. In this mode, you need to move the wsl data.

In my case (Windows10 with Docker Desktop) none of the above solutions helped me, but I found the solution; run these commands.

This command changes the docker directory to drive D: (don't forget to quit docker desktop first)

wsl --shutdown
wsl --export docker-desktop-data docker-desktop-data.tar
wsl --unregister docker-desktop-data
wsl --import docker-desktop-data D:\docker-new-repo\ docker-desktop-data.tar --version 2

And now you can delete .tar file

There is a very good blog post explaining everything:

https://dev.to/kimcuonthenet/move-docker-desktop-data-distro-out-of-system-drive-4cg2

Docker Version : 2.2.0.3 (42716)

1. Right-click on docker icon on desktop tray

2. Click on Settings

3 Click on Resources from the left-hand menu then under the Disk Image location click on browse and change the location

4. Click on apply and restart

I found a solution here

Docker native, on Windows, runs in a Hyper-V virtual machine.

Move existing docker VM

I have to move the VM used by docker to the desired location. I did this using the GUI of Hyper-V manager. The VM for docker is called MobyLinuxVM.

• Right-click MobyLinuxVM
• Select Move
• Select desired location

Set location of futures Hyper-V VMs

And to be sure futures VMs of Hyper-V will be stored on my secondary drive, I followed those instructions

In a powershell terminal (destination folders must exist)

SET-VMHOST –computername <computer> –virtualharddiskpath 'D:\Hyper-V_Virtual-Hard_Disks' SET-VMHOST –computername <computer> –virtualmachinepath 'D:\Hyper-V_VMs'

In 2020 to "Change Docker native images location on Windows 10 Pro" is:

1. quit docker desktop
2. open/edit configuration file C:\ProgramData\Docker\config\daemon.json
3. add setting "data-root": "D:\\Virtual Machines\\Docker"
4. now start docker desktop
5. run the command docker info to see the setting Docker Root Dir: D:\Virtual Machines\Docker
6. pull docker images e.g.: docker pull mongo
7. you can find the downloaded images in folder D:\Virtual Machines\Docker\windowsfilter