podman-machine - Man Page
Manage Podman's virtual machine
Examples (TL;DR)
- List existing machines:
podman machine ls - Create a new default machine:
podman machine init - Create a new machine with a specific name:
podman machine init name - Create a new machine with different resources:
podman machine init --cpus=4 --memory=4096 --disk-size=50 - Start or stop a machine:
podman machine start|stop name - Connect to a running machine via SSH:
podman machine ssh name - Inspect information about a machine:
podman machine inspect name
Synopsis
podman machine subcommand
Description
podman machine is a set of subcommands that manage Podman's virtual machine.
Podman on MacOS and Windows requires a virtual machine. This is because containers are Linux - containers do not run on any other OS because containers' core functionality are tied to the Linux kernel. Podman machine must be used to manage MacOS and Windows machines, but can be optionally used on Linux.
All podman machine commands are rootless only.
NOTE: The podman-machine configuration file is managed under the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/containers/podman/machine/ directory. Changing the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable while the machines are running can lead to unexpected behavior.
Podman machine behaviour can be modified via the [machine] section in the containers.conf(5) file.
Subcommands
| Command | Man Page | Description |
| info | podman-machine-info(1) | Display machine host info |
| init | podman-machine-init(1) | Initialize a new virtual machine |
| inspect | podman-machine-inspect(1) | Inspect one or more virtual machines |
| list | podman-machine-list(1) | List virtual machines |
| os | podman-machine-os(1) | Manage a Podman virtual machine's OS |
| reset | podman-machine-reset(1) | Reset Podman machines and environment |
| rm | podman-machine-rm(1) | Remove a virtual machine |
| set | podman-machine-set(1) | Set a virtual machine setting |
| ssh | podman-machine-ssh(1) | SSH into a virtual machine |
| start | podman-machine-start(1) | Start a virtual machine |
| stop | podman-machine-stop(1) | Stop a virtual machine |
See Also
podman(1), podman-machine-info(1), podman-machine-init(1), podman-machine-list(1), podman-machine-os(1), podman-machine-rm(1), podman-machine-ssh(1), podman-machine-start(1), podman-machine-stop(1), podman-machine-inspect(1), podman-machine-reset(1), containers.conf(5)
Troubleshooting
See podman-troubleshooting(7) for solutions to common issues.
History
March 2021, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com ⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩
Referenced By
podman(1), podman-machine-info(1), podman-machine-init(1), podman-machine-inspect(1), podman-machine-list(1), podman-machine-os(1), podman-machine-os-apply(1), podman-machine-reset(1), podman-machine-rm(1), podman-machine-set(1), podman-machine-ssh(1), podman-machine-start(1), podman-machine-stop(1).
The man page docker-machine(1) is an alias of podman-machine(1).