<para>The following options are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-h</option></term>
- <term><option>--help</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Prints a short help
- text and exits.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--version</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Prints a short version
- string and exits.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Do not pipe output into a
- pager.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-ask-password</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Do not query the user
- for authentication for privileged
- operations.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-H</option></term>
- <term><option>--host=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Execute the operation
- remotely. Specify a hostname, or
- username and hostname separated by <literal>@</literal>,
- to connect to. This will use SSH to
- talk to the remote machine manager
- instance.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-M</option></term>
- <term><option>--machine=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Execute the operation on a
- local container. Specify a container
- name to connect to.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-p</option></term>
<term><option>--property=</option></term>
<term><option>--kill-who=</option></term>
<listitem><para>When used with
- <command>kill-machine</command>,
+ <command>kill</command>,
choose which processes to kill. Must
be one of <option>leader</option>, or
<option>all</option> to select whether
<term><option>--signal=</option></term>
<listitem><para>When used with
- <command>kill-machine</command>, choose
+ <command>kill</command>, choose
which signal to send to selected
processes. Must be one of the
well-known signal specifiers, such as
<constant>SIGTERM</constant>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--no-legend</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Do not print the legend,
+ i.e. the column headers and the
+ footer.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--mkdir</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>When used with
+ <command>bind</command> creates the
+ destination directory before applying
+ the bind mount.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--read-only</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>When used with
+ <command>bind</command> applies a
+ read-only bind
+ mount.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />
+
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
</variablelist>
<para>The following commands are understood:</para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>status</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>status</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime
status information about one or more
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>show</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>show</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Show properties of one
or more registered virtual machines or
containers or the manager itself. If
no argument is specified, properties
of the manager will be shown. If an
- ID is specified, properties of this
+ NAME is specified, properties of this
virtual machine or container are
shown. By default, empty properties
are suppressed. Use
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>login</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>Terminates a virtual
- machine or container. This kills all
- processes of the virtual machine or
- container and deallocates all
- resources attached to that
- instance.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Open a terminal login
+ session to a container. This will
+ create a TTY connection to a specific
+ container and asks for the execution of a
+ getty on it. Note that this is only
+ supported for containers running
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ as init system.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>reboot</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Reboot one or more
+ containers. This will trigger a reboot
+ by sending SIGINT to the container's
+ init process, which is roughly
+ equivalent to pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on
+ a non-containerized system, and is
+ compatible with containers running any
+ init system.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>poweroff</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Power off one or more
+ containers. This will trigger a reboot
+ by sending SIGRTMIN+4 to the
+ container's init process, which causes
+ systemd-compatible init systems to
+ shut down cleanly. This operation does
+ not work on containers that do not run
+ a
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>-compatible
+ init system, such as
+ sysvinit.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>kill</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>kill</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Send a signal to one
or more processes of the virtual
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>reboot</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>terminate</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
- <listitem><para>Reboot one or more
- containers. This will trigger a reboot
- by sending SIGINT to the container's
- init process, which is roughly
- equivalent to pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on
- a non-containerized
- system.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Terminates a virtual
+ machine or container. This kills all
+ processes of the virtual machine or
+ container and deallocates all
+ resources attached to that
+ instance.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>login</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable></term>
+ <term><command>bind</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable> [<replaceable>PATH</replaceable>]</term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Bind mounts a
+ directory from the host into the
+ specified container. The first
+ directory argument is the source
+ directory on the host, the second
+ directory argument the source
+ directory on the host. When the latter
+ is omitted the destination path in the
+ container is the same as the source
+ path on the host. When combined with
+ the <option>--read-only</option>
+ switch a ready-only bind mount is
+ created. When combined with the
+ <option>--mkdir</option> switch the
+ destination path is first created
+ before the mount is applied. Note that
+ this option is currently only
+ supported for
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ containers.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- <listitem><para>Open a terminal login
- session to a container. This will
- create a TTY connection to a specific
- container and asks for the execution of a
- getty on it. Note that this is only
- supported for containers running
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- as init system.</para></listitem>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>copy-to</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable> [<replaceable>PATH</replaceable>]</term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Copies files or
+ directories from the host system into
+ a running container. Takes a container
+ name, followed by the source path on
+ the host and the destination path in
+ the container. If the destination path
+ is omitted the same as the source path
+ is used.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>copy-from</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable> [<replaceable>PATH</replaceable>]</term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Copies files or
+ directories from a container into the
+ host system. Takes a container name,
+ followed by the source path in the
+ container the destination path on the
+ host. If the destination path is
+ omitted the same as the source path is
+ used.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
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