Here are the few locations, with commands for few Operating Systems: Another usefull tool is looking at the docker deamon logs which can be done the follwing way as explained on stackoverflow: journalctl -u rvice | tail -n 50 Not all errors can be found in the way described above.
increasing the amount of ram is straight forward enough in virtual box, but i think i messed something up when trying. i was running out of disk space before for docker (not on the host - there's 1.8TB available to the host). i'm curious what the process is to allocate more storage to docker-machine. Which will show errors with downloading images, mounting nfs volumes amongst others. sergeycherepanov i had done this in a more manual way previously - this is great, thank you.
I found one handy solution to the problem.