Question: how do I install colima over an existing docker install?

[jschwalbe]

I have Docker Desktop running on my M1 Mac Mini. Things are good, but I'd like to try out colima (mainly because I want my containers to start w/o logging in).

I installed via brew, ran colima start, but then docker container ls returns an empty list of containers. Is there a way to keep and run my old containers when I install colima?

[abiosoft]

colima starts own docker server and sets up own docker context. You can check the list of available contexts with docker context ls.

You can however migrate the existing docker images by leveraging docker save and docker load commands.