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diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
index 4d60acb3e..bec233c1c 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
@@ -124,15 +123,37 @@
see each other. The PID namespace separation of the
two containers is complete and the containers will
share very few runtime objects except for the
- underlying file system. It is however possible to
- enter an existing container, see
- Example 4 below.
-
+ underlying file system. Use
+ machinectl1's
+ login command to request an
+ additional login prompt in a running container.
systemd-nspawn implements the
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.
@@ -171,7 +192,7 @@
Directory to use as
file system root for the namespace
- container. If omitted the current
+ container. If omitted, the current
directory will be
used.
@@ -212,15 +233,25 @@
host, and is used to initialize the
container's hostname (which the
container can choose to override,
- however). If not specified the last
+ however). If not specified, the last
component of the root directory of the
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
@@ -282,12 +303,22 @@
CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL.
+
+
+
+ Specify one or more
+ additional capabilities to drop for
+ the container. This allows running the
+ container with fewer capabilities than
+ the default (see above).
+
+
Control whether the
container's journal shall be made
- visible to the host system. If enabled
+ visible to the host system. If enabled,
allows viewing the container's journal
files from the host (but not vice
versa). Takes one of
@@ -313,7 +344,7 @@
/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
@@ -349,6 +380,21 @@
creates read-only bind
mount.
+
+
+
+
+ Specifies an
+ environment variable assignment to
+ pass to the init process in the
+ container, in the format
+ NAME=VALUE. This
+ may be used to override the default
+ variables or to set additional
+ variables. This parameter may be used
+ more than once.
+
+
@@ -360,7 +406,7 @@
# 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.
@@ -388,24 +434,29 @@
boots an OS in a namespace container in it.
-
+ Example 4
- To enter the container, PID of one of the
- processes sharing the new namespaces must be used.
- systemd-nspawn prints the PID
- (as viewed from the outside) of the launched process,
- and it can be used to enter the container.
+ # mv ~/arch-tree /var/lib/container/arch
+# systemctl enable systemd-nspawn@arch.service
+# systemctl start systemd-nspawn@arch.service
- # nsenter -muinpt $PID
+ This makes the Arch Linux container part of the
+ multi-user.target on the host.
+
+
- nsenter1
- is part of
- util-linux.
- Kernel support for entering namespaces was added in
- Linux 3.8.
+
+ Example 5
+
+ # btrfs subvolume snapshot / /.tmp
+# systemd-nspawn --private-network -D /.tmp -b
+
+ This runs a copy of the host system in a
+ btrfs snapshot.
+
Exit status
@@ -418,10 +469,11 @@
systemd1,
chroot1,
- unshare1,
yum8,
debootstrap8,
- pacman8
+ pacman8,
+ systemd.slice5,
+ machinectl1