Error setting up docker on Windows - windows

Question

I am trying to set up docker machine on Windows and this problem has annoyed me for a few days.
I downloaded and installed DockerToolbox-1.9.1a on my Windows, so it came with Virtual Box version 5.0.10. After that I ran this command to create my virtual machine:
docker-machine create --driver virtualbox --engine-insecure-registry docker.pre-prod.ss.local:5000 --virtualbox-hostonly-cidr 192.168.99.100/24 mymachine
Here is what I got:
Waiting for machine to be running, this may take a few minutes...
Machine is running, waiting for SSH to be available... Detecting
operating system of created instance... Detecting the provisioner...
Provisioning created instance... Copying certs to the local machine
directory... Copying certs to the remote machine... Setting Docker
configuration on the remote daemon... WARNING >>> This machine has
been allocated an IP address, but Docker Machine could not reach it
successfully.
SSH for the machine should still work, but connecting to exposed
ports, such as the Docker daemon port (usually :2376), may not
work properly.
You may need to add the route manually, or use another related
workaround
This could be due to a VPN, proxy, or host file configuration issue.
You also might want to clear any VirtualBox host only interfaces you
are not using
The machine was created successfully. So I ran the docker-machine env command:
docker-machine env --shell=powershell mymachine| Invoke-Expression
and I got:
Error running connection boilerplate: Error checking and/or
regenerating the certs: There was icates for host
"192.168.99.100:2376": dial tcp 192.168.99.100:2376: connectex: No
connection target machine actively refused it. You can attempt to
regenerate them using 'docker-machine regenerate-certs name'. Be
advised that this will trigger a Docker daemon restart which will stop
running containers.
Running docker version returned
Client: Version: 1.9.1 API version: 1.21 Go version:
go1.4.3 Git commit: a34a1d5 Built: Fri Nov 20 17:56:04 UTC
2015 OS/Arch: windows/amd64 An error occurred trying to connect:
Get http://localhost:2375/v1.21/version: dial tcp connection could be
made because the target machine actively refused it.
Can someone help to point out the direction to fix this issue? It is really troublesome to set up docker on Windows. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

I use docker 1.9.1 on Windows (7, 8 and even 10), but without docker registry, and without using --virtualbox-hostonly-cidr.
If you are to use that last option, check "Set a specific address ip when i create a docker container", where I mention issue 1709, which uses cidr in .1, not .100 (but getting a .100 ip address as a result):
docker-machine create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-hostonly-cidr "192.168.99.1/24" m99
If there's no other machine with the same cidr (Classless Inter-Domain Routing), the machine should always get the .100 IP upon start.