podman-machine-ssh - Man Page

podman machine ssh [options] [name] [command [arg ...]]

SSH into a Podman-managed virtual machine and optionally execute a command on the virtual machine. Unless using the default virtual machine, the first argument must be the virtual machine name. The optional command to execute can then follow. If no command is provided, an interactive session with the virtual machine is established.

The exit code from ssh command is forwarded to the podman machine ssh caller, see Exit Codes ⟨#Exit-Codes⟩.

The default machine name is podman-machine-default. If a machine name is not specified as an argument, then podman-machine-default will be SSH'd into.

Rootless only.

The exit code from podman machine ssh gives information about why the command failed. When podman machine ssh commands exit with a non-zero code, the exit codes follow the chroot standard, see below:

125 The error is with podman itself

$ podman machine ssh --foo; echo $?
Error: unknown flag: --foo
125

126 Executing a contained command and the command cannot be invoked

$ podman machine ssh /etc; echo $?
Error: fork/exec /etc: permission denied
126

127 Executing a contained command and the command cannot be found

$ podman machine ssh foo; echo $?
Error: fork/exec /usr/bin/bogus: no such file or directory
127

Exit code contained command exit code

$ podman machine ssh /bin/sh -c 'exit 3'; echo $?
3

To get an interactive session with the default Podman machine:

SSH into the default Podman machine.

$ podman machine ssh

Run command inside the default Podman machine via ssh.

$ podman machine ssh myvm

Run command inside the specified Podman machine via ssh.

$ podman machine ssh myvm rpm -q podman

podman(1), podman-machine(1)

March 2021, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com ⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩

podman-machine(1).

The man page docker-machine-ssh(1) is an alias of podman-machine-ssh(1).