When docker-desktop is running, docker image ls command is not showing available images?

[R4JxF60]

When I execute docker image ls command, docker shows the available images as expected.

But when docker-desktop is running, executing docker image ls command not shows available images. Also the docker-desktop is not showing the images(pull via docker pull command) on the disk.

Any insight on this?

[thaJeztah]

Docker Desktop installs a new daemon running inside a VM, and if you start docker desktop, it switches the CLI to use that daemon; after switching, you'll see the images that are available in the docker desktop daemon, which may not have images yet.

In either case, this looks to be specific to docker desktop, so let me transfer this ticket.

[aiordache]

@R4JxF60 Can you run the commands with the context flag to show which engine your are targeting?

docker -c desktop-linux images
docker -c default images

Please keep in mind that Docker Desktop and your local engine do not share the image store. If you pulled/built images with your local engine, you won't see them in Docker Desktop and vice versa.

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