X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd-nspawn.xml;h=ca21f2e6dbc0afadd805325a8acd3bc93b1fcba0;hb=1e158d273bb63883566358cbb886cd4167421df6;hp=8adcd946b0438e6da634576eefc780a99ada068a;hpb=870c4365cf3d407270788abe14d216a636ecf6c3;p=elogind.git diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml index 8adcd946b..ca21f2e6d 100644 --- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml +++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml @@ -133,6 +133,28 @@ 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. @@ -202,6 +224,21 @@ + + + + + Sets the machine name + for this container. This name may be + used to identify this container on the + host, and is used to initialize the + container's hostname (which the + container can choose to override, + however). If not specified the last + component of the root directory of the + container is used. + + @@ -345,7 +382,7 @@ # 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. @@ -382,7 +419,7 @@ (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 $PID nsenter1 is part of