contain this file out-of-the-box.</para>
</refsect1>
- <refsect1>
- <title>Incompatibility with Auditing</title>
-
- <para>Note that the kernel auditing subsystem is
- currently broken when used together with
- containers. We hence recommend turning it off entirely
- by booting with <literal>audit=0</literal> 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.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
and exits.</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, the only output
+ from nspawn will be the console output
+ of the container OS itself.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-D</option></term>
<term><option>--directory=</option></term>
container is used.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--uuid=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Set the specified UUID
+ for the container. The init system
+ will initialize
+ <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>
+ from this if this file is not set yet.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--slice=</option></term>
<listitem><para>Make the container
part of the specified slice, instead
- of the
+ of the default
<filename>machine.slice</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--private-network</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Disconnect networking
+ of the container from the host. This
+ makes all network interfaces
+ unavailable in the container, with the
+ exception of the loopback device and
+ those specified with
+ <option>--network-interface=</option>
+ and configured with
+ <option>--network-veth</option>. If
+ this option is specified, the
+ CAP_NET_ADMIN capability will be added
+ to the set of capabilities the
+ container retains. The latter may be
+ disabled by using
+ <option>--drop-capability=</option>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--network-interface=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Assign the specified
+ network interface to the
+ container. This will move the
+ specified interface from the calling
+ namespace and place it in the
+ container. When the container
+ terminates, it is moved back to the
+ host namespace. Note that
+ <option>--network-interface=</option>
+ implies
+ <option>--private-network</option>. This
+ option may be used more than once to
+ add multiple network interfaces to the
+ container.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--network-veth</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Create a virtual
+ Ethernet link between host and
+ container. The host side of the
+ 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
+ link will be named
+ <literal>host0</literal>. Note that
+ <option>--network-veth</option>
+ implies
+ <option>--private-network</option>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--network-bridge=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Adds the host side of the
+ Ethernet link created with
+ <option>--network-veth</option>
+ to the specified bridge. Note that
+ <option>--network-bridge</option>
+ implies
+ <option>--network-veth</option>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-Z</option></term>
<term><option>--selinux-context=</option></term>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--uuid=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Set the specified UUID
- for the container. The init system
- will initialize
- <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>
- from this if this file is not set yet.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--private-network</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Turn off networking in
- the container. This makes all network
- interfaces unavailable in the
- container, with the exception of the
- loopback device.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--read-only</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Mount the root file
- system read-only for the
- container.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--capability=</option></term>
CAP_SYS_PTRACE, CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG,
CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, CAP_SYS_BOOT,
CAP_AUDIT_WRITE,
- CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL.</para></listitem>
+ CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL. Also CAP_NET_ADMIN
+ is retained if
+ <option>--private-network</option> is
+ specified. If the special value
+ <literal>all</literal> is passed, all
+ capabilities are
+ retained.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<option>--link-journal=guest</option>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--read-only</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Mount the root file
+ system read-only for the
+ container.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--bind=</option></term>
<term><option>--bind-ro=</option></term>
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>
should be enabled when the container
runs a full Operating System (more
specifically: an init system), and is
- useful to ensure the container is
- accesible via
+ useful to ensure that the container is
+ accessible via
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>machinectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
and shown by tools such as
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ps</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. If
the container does not run an init
- system it is recommended to set this
+ system, it is recommended to set this
option to <literal>no</literal>. Note
that <option>--share-system</option>
implies
<option>--register=no</option>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--keep-unit</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Instead of creating a
+ transient scope unit to run the
+ container in, simply register the
+ service or scope unit
+ <command>systemd-nspawn</command> has
+ 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 a service unit,
+ and the service unit's sole purpose
+ is to run a single
+ <command>systemd-nspawn</command>
+ container. This option is not
+ available if run from a user
+ 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>