podman-machine-ssh - SSH into a virtual machine
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Description
SSH into a Podman-managed virtual machine and optionally execute a command on the virtual machine. Unless
using the default virtual machine, the first argument must be the virtual machine name. The optional
command to execute can then follow. If no command is provided, an interactive session with the virtual
machine is established.
The exit code from ssh command is forwarded to the podman machine ssh caller, see Exit Codes
⟨#Exit-Codes⟩.
The default machine name is podman-machine-default. If a machine name is not specified as an argument,
then podman-machine-default will be SSH'd into.
Rootless only.
Examples
To get an interactive session with the default Podman machine:
SSH into the default Podman machine.
$ podman machine ssh
Run command inside the default Podman machine via ssh.
$ podman machine ssh myvm
Run command inside the specified Podman machine via ssh.
$ podman machine ssh myvm rpm -q podman
Exit Codes
The exit code from podmanmachinessh gives information about why the command failed. When podmanmachinessh commands exit with a non-zero code, the exit codes follow the chroot standard, see below:
125 The error is with podman itself
$ podman machine ssh --foo; echo $?
Error: unknown flag: --foo
125
126 Executing a containedcommand and the command cannot be invoked
$ podman machine ssh /etc; echo $?
Error: fork/exec /etc: permission denied
126
127 Executing a containedcommand and the command cannot be found
$ podman machine ssh foo; echo $?
Error: fork/exec /usr/bin/bogus: no such file or directory
127
Exitcodecontainedcommand exit code
$ podman machine ssh /bin/sh -c 'exit 3'; echo $?
3
History
March 2021, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com ⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩
podman-machine-ssh(1)
Name
podman-machine-ssh - SSH into a virtual machine
Options
--help
Print usage statement.
--username=name
Username to use when SSH-ing into the VM.
See Also
podman(1), podman-machine(1)
Synopsis
podmanmachinessh [options] [name] [command [arg ...]]
