Delete logs of containers docker for mac

Question

I'm trying to delete the logs of my containers. I'm using docker for mac. For instance this command for the elasticsearch container

docker inspect --format='{{.LogPath}}' elasticsearch

will output

/var/lib/docker/containers/d4d426c49ee91447797e482b86b1eb5fd51f6a9257dd1f3a2391895abecf2b56/d4d426c49ee91447797e482b86b1eb5fd51f6a9257dd1f3a2391895abecf2b56-json.log

I know that this is not in my filesystem, but in the VM. When I used dinghy with VirtualBox I entered the machine with

docker-machine ssh :machine_name

With dinghy it was dinghy, in other cases it would be default. And then I just deleted the log file.

I'm trying to get the active machine used in docker for mac with

docker-machine ls

but no machine is registered. I'm executing this

eval $(docker-machine env)

And the output is this

Error: No machine name(s) specified and no "default" machine exists.

I get the same output when I execute

docker-machine ip

Here a user says that with this setup we no longer have access to docker machine, which is fine, but is there a way to delete the logs?

https://forums.docker.com/t/how-to-find-docker-machine-ip-in-commandline-in-docker-beta-os-x/9844/5

Answer 1

Although this question is quite old and may have been answered somewhere else: The reason why this doesn't work is that Docker For Mac does not use a docker-machine managed virtual machine. See docs.docker.com/machine/get-started/#prerequisite-informatio‌​n. It is using a Hyperkit lightweight engine.