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                                 <listitem><para>Turns off any status
                                 output by the tool itself. When this
-                                switch is used, then the only output
-                                by nspawn will be the console output
+                                switch is used, the only output
+                                from nspawn will be the console output
                                 of the container OS itself.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 <term><option>--network-veth</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Create a virtual
-                                ethernet link between host and
+                                Ethernet link between host and
                                 container. The host side of the
-                                ethernet link will be available as
+                                Ethernet link will be available as a
                                 network interface named after the
                                 container's name (as specified with
                                 <option>--machine=</option>), prefixed
                                 with <literal>ve-</literal>. The
-                                container side of the the ethernet
+                                container side of the the Ethernet
                                 link will be named
                                 <literal>host0</literal>. Note that
                                 <option>--network-veth</option>
                                 <term><option>--network-bridge=</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Adds the host side of the
-                                ethernet link created with
+                                Ethernet link created with
                                 <option>--network-veth</option>
                                 to the specified bridge. Note that
                                 <option>--network-bridge</option>
                                 container in, simply register the
                                 service or scope unit
                                 <command>systemd-nspawn</command> has
-                                been invoked in in
+                                been invoked in with
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>. This
                                 has no effect if
                                 <option>--register=no</option> is
                                 used. This switch should be used if
                                 <command>systemd-nspawn</command> is
-                                invoked from within an a service unit,
+                                invoked from within a service unit,
                                 and the service unit's sole purpose
                                 is to run a single
                                 <command>systemd-nspawn</command>
                                 session.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--personality=</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Control the
+                                architecture ("personality") reported
+                                by
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>uname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                                in the container. Currently, only
+                                <literal>x86</literal> and
+                                <literal>x86-64</literal> are
+                                supported. This is useful when running
+                                a 32bit container on a 64bit
+                                host. If this setting is not used
+                                the personality reported in the
+                                container is the same as the one
+                                reported on the
+                                host.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
                 </variablelist>
 
         </refsect1>