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                 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
                 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
-                <link linkend='example-nsenter'>Example 4</link> below.
-                </para>
+                underlying file system. Use
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machinectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s
+                <command>login</command> command to request an
+                additional login prompt in a running container.</para>
 
                 <para><command>systemd-nspawn</command> implements the
                 <ulink
 
                 <para><command>systemd-nspawn</command> implements the
                 <ulink
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>-Z</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--selinux-context=</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Sets the SELinux
+                                security context to be used to label
+                                processes in the container.</para>
+                                </listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>-L</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--selinux-apifs-context=</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Sets the SELinux security
+                                context to be used to label files in
+                                the virtual API file systems in the
+                                container.</para>
+                                </listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--uuid=</option></term>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--uuid=</option></term>
 
                                 CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--drop-capability=</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Specify one or more
+                                additional capabilities to drop for
+                                the container. This allows running the
+                                container with fewer capabilities than
+                                the default (see above).</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--link-journal=</option></term>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--link-journal=</option></term>
 
                                 creates read-only bind
                                 mount.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                                 creates read-only bind
                                 mount.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--setenv=</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Specifies an
+                                environment variable assignment to
+                                pass to the init process in the
+                                container, in the format
+                                <literal>NAME=VALUE</literal>. This
+                                may be used to override the default
+                                variables or to set additional
+                                variables. This parameter may be used
+                                more than once.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>-q</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--quiet</option></term>
+
+                                <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
+                                of the container OS
+                                itself.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--share-system</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Allows the container
+                                to share certain system facilities
+                                with the host. More specifically, this
+                                turns off PID namespacing, UTS
+                                namespacing and IPC namespacing, and
+                                thus allows the guest to see and
+                                interact more easily with processes
+                                outside of the container. Note that
+                                using this option makes it impossible
+                                to start up a full Operating System in the
+                                container, as an init system cannot
+                                operate in this mode. It is only
+                                useful to run specific programs or
+                                applications this way, without
+                                involving an init
+                                system in the container.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                 </variablelist>
 
         </refsect1>
                 </variablelist>
 
         </refsect1>
                 boots an OS in a namespace container in it.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
                 boots an OS in a namespace container in it.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
-        <refsect1 id='example-nsenter'>
+        <refsect1>
                 <title>Example 4</title>
 
                 <title>Example 4</title>
 
-                <para>To enter the container, PID of one of the
-                processes sharing the new namespaces must be used.
-                <command>systemd-nspawn</command> prints the PID
-                (as viewed from the outside) of the launched process,
-                and it can be used to enter the container.</para>
+                <programlisting># mv ~/arch-tree /var/lib/container/arch
+# systemctl enable systemd-nspawn@arch.service
+# systemctl start systemd-nspawn@arch.service</programlisting>
+
+                <para>This makes the Arch Linux container part of the
+                <filename>multi-user.target</filename> on the host.
+                </para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Example 5</title>
+
+                <programlisting># btrfs subvolume snapshot / /.tmp
+# systemd-nspawn --private-network -D /.tmp -b</programlisting>
+
+                <para>This runs a copy of the host system in a
+                btrfs snapshot.</para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Example 6</title>
 
 
-                <programlisting># nsenter -m -u -i -n -p -t $PID</programlisting>
+                <programlisting># chcon system_u:object_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0:c0,c1 -R /srv/container
+# systemd-nspawn -L system_u:object_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0:c0,c1 -Z system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0,c1 -D /srv/container /bin/sh</programlisting>
 
 
-                <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>nsenter</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                is part of
-                <ulink url="https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux">util-linux</ulink>.
-                Kernel support for entering namespaces was added in
-                Linux 3.8.</para>
+                <para>This runs a container with SELinux sandbox security contexts.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
                 <para>
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>chroot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                 <para>
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>chroot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>unshare</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>yum</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>debootstrap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pacman</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>yum</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>debootstrap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pacman</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.slice</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.slice</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machinectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 </para>
         </refsect1>
 
                 </para>
         </refsect1>