For convenience I ended up with two aliases: &quot;dm&quot; for &quot;docker-machine&quot;, and &quot;dmenv&quot; for &quot;eval $(docker-machine env dev)&quot;.<p>But before all that, I simply downloaded and used the docker toolbox installer for OS X.  I opted to skip the Kitemaric install because why? Otherwise it did the right thing with existing virtualbox install, found and imported my existing boot2docker vmdk, etc.