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diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
index 4d60acb3e..6264e48db 100644
--- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
@@ -97,14 +97,13 @@
involved with boot and systems management.
In contrast to
- chroot1
- systemd-nspawn may be used to boot
- full Linux-based operating systems in a
- container.
+ chroot1Â systemd-nspawn
+ may be used to boot full Linux-based operating systems
+ in a container.
Use a tool like
yum8,
- debootstrap8
+ debootstrap8,
or
pacman8
to set up an OS directory tree suitable as file system
@@ -133,6 +132,28 @@
Container
Interface specification.
+
+ As a safety check
+ systemd-nspawn will verify the
+ existence of /etc/os-release in
+ the container tree before starting the container (see
+ os-release5). It
+ might be necessary to add this file to the container
+ tree manually if the OS of the container is too old to
+ contain this file out-of-the-box.
+
+
+
+ Incompatibility with Auditing
+
+ Note that the kernel auditing subsystem is
+ currently broken when used together with
+ containers. We hence recommend turning it off entirely
+ by booting with audit=0 on the
+ kernel command line, or by turning it off at kernel
+ build time. If auditing is enabled in the kernel
+ operating systems booted in an nspawn container might
+ refuse log-in attempts.
@@ -217,10 +238,20 @@
container is used.
+
+
+
+ Make the container
+ part of the specified slice, instead
+ of the
+ machine.slice.
+
+
+
- Set the specified uuid
+ Set the specified UUID
for the container. The init system
will initialize
/etc/machine-id
@@ -228,16 +259,6 @@
-
-
-
-
- Makes the container appear in
- other hierarchies than the name=systemd:/ one.
- Takes a comma-separated list of controllers.
-
-
-
@@ -252,7 +273,7 @@
Mount the root file
- system read only for the
+ system read-only for the
container.
@@ -261,7 +282,7 @@
List one or more
additional capabilities to grant the
- container. Takes a comma separated
+ container. Takes a comma-separated
list of capability names, see
capabilities7
for more information. Note that the
@@ -313,7 +334,7 @@
/var/log/journal
exists, it will be bind mounted
into the container. If the
- subdirectory doesn't exist, no
+ subdirectory does not exist, no
linking is performed. Effectively,
booting a container once with
guest or
@@ -360,7 +381,7 @@
# systemd-nspawn -bD /srv/mycontainer
This installs a minimal Fedora distribution into
- the directory /srv/mycontainer/ and
+ the directory /srv/mycontainer/ and
then boots an OS in a namespace container in
it.
@@ -397,7 +418,7 @@
(as viewed from the outside) of the launched process,
and it can be used to enter the container.
- # nsenter -muinpt $PID
+ # nsenter -m -u -i -n -p -t $PIDnsenter1
is part of
@@ -421,7 +442,8 @@
unshare1,
yum8,
debootstrap8,
- pacman8
+ pacman8,
+ systemd.slice5