X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd-nspawn.xml;h=ca21f2e6dbc0afadd805325a8acd3bc93b1fcba0;hb=74d005783e355acc784d123024e33bbb66ef9ef1;hp=5cba40bcd427ef7fdbcd086ffbccd59bb7daa1e9;hpb=1fd961211df69ce672252d543bf4777738647048;p=elogind.git diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml index 5cba40bcd..ca21f2e6d 100644 --- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml +++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml @@ -51,7 +51,14 @@ systemd-nspawn OPTIONS - COMMAND + COMMAND + ARGS + + + + systemd-nspawn + -b + OPTIONS ARGS @@ -126,15 +133,43 @@ 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. Options - If no arguments are passed the container is set - up and a shell started in it, otherwise the passed - command and arguments are executed in it. The - following options are understood: + If option is specified, the + arguments are used as arguments for the init + binary. Otherwise, COMMAND + specifies the program to launch in the container, and + the remaining arguments are used as arguments for this + program. If is not used and no + arguments are specifed, a shell is launched in the + container. + + The following options are understood: @@ -170,7 +205,10 @@ Automatically search for an init binary and invoke it instead of a shell or a user supplied - program. + program. If this option is used, arguments + specified on the command line are used + as arguments for the init binary. + @@ -186,6 +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. + + @@ -298,6 +351,26 @@ Equivalent to . + + + + + + Bind mount a file or + directory from the host into the + container. Either takes a path + argument -- in which case the + specified path will be mounted from + the host to the same path in the + container --, or a colon-separated + pair of paths -- in which case the + first specified path is the source in + the host, and the second path is the + destination in the container. The + option + creates read-only bind + mount. + @@ -309,7 +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. @@ -346,7 +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