podman-machine-start - Start a virtual machine
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Description
Starts a virtual machine for Podman.
Rootless only.
Podman on MacOS and Windows requires a virtual machine. This is because containers are Linux - containers
do not run on any other OS because containers' core functionality are tied to the Linux kernel. Podman
machine must be used to manage MacOS and Windows machines, but can be optionally used on Linux.
The default machine name is podman-machine-default. If a machine name is not specified as an argument,
then podman-machine-default will be started.
Only one Podman managed VM can be active at a time. If a VM is already running, podmanmachinestart
returns an error.
podmanmachinestart starts a Linux virtual machine where containers are run.
Examples
Start the specified podman machine.
$ podman machine start myvm
History
March 2021, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com ⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩
podman-machine-start(1)
Name
podman-machine-start - Start a virtual machine
Options
--help
Print usage statement.
--no-info
Suppress informational tips.
--quiet,-q
Suppress machine starting status output.
See Also
podman(1), podman-machine(1)
Synopsis
podmanmachinestart [name]
