NAME

       podman-machine-set - Set a virtual machine setting

SYNOPSIS

       podman machine set [options] [name]

DESCRIPTION

       Change a machine setting.

       The  default machine name is podman-machine-default. If a machine name is not specified as
       an argument, then the settings will be applied to podman-machine-default.

       Rootless only.

OPTIONS

   --cpus=number
       Number of CPUs.  Only supported for QEMU machines.

   --disk-size=number
       Size of the disk for the guest VM in GB.  Can only be increased. Only supported  for  QEMU
       machines.

   --help
       Print usage statement.

   --memory, -m=number
       Memory (in MB).  Only supported for QEMU machines.

   --rootful
       Whether  this machine prefers rootful (true) or rootless (false) container execution. This
       option updates the current podman remote connection default if it is currently pointing at
       the specified machine name (or podman-machine-default if no name is specified).

       Unlike  [podman system connection default] this option makes the API socket, if available,
       forward to the rootful/rootless socket in the VM.

       Note that changing this option means  that  all  the  existing  containers/images/volumes,
       etc...  are no longer visible with the default connection/socket. This is because the root
       and rootless users in the VM are completely separated and do not share  any  storage.  The
       data  however  is  not  lost  and  you can always change this option back or use the other
       connection to access it.

   --usb=bus=number,devnum=number or vendor=hexadecimal,product=hexadecimal or ""
       Assign a USB device from the host to the VM.  Only supported for QEMU Machines.

       The device needs to be present when the VM  starts.   The  device  needs  to  have  proper
       permissions in order to be assign to podman machine.

       Use an empty string to remove all previously set USB devices.

       Note  that using bus and device number are simpler but the values can change every boot or
       when the device is unplugged. Using vendor and product might lead to collision in the case
       of  multiple  devices  with  the  same vendor product value, the first available device is
       assigned.

   --user-mode-networking
       Indicates that this machine relays traffic from the guest  through  a  user-space  process
       running  on  the  host. In some VPN configurations the VPN may drop traffic from alternate
       network interfaces, including VM network devices.  By  enabling  user-mode  networking  (a
       setting  of  true),  VPNs  observe  all  podman  machine  traffic as coming from the host,
       bypassing the problem.

       When the qemu backend is used (Linux, Mac), user-mode networking is mandatory and the only
       allowed value is true. In contrast, The Windows/WSL backend defaults to false, and follows
       the standard WSL network setup.  Changing this setting  to  true  on  Windows/WSL  informs
       Podman  to replace the WSL networking setup on start of this machine instance with a user-
       mode networking distribution. Since WSL shares the same kernel across  distributions,  all
       other running distributions reuses this network.  Likewise, when the last machine instance
       with a true setting stops, the original networking setup is restored.

EXAMPLES

       To switch the default VM podman-machine-default from rootless to rootful:

       $ podman machine set --rootful

       or more explicitly:

       $ podman machine set --rootful=true

       To switch the default VM podman-machine-default from rootful to rootless:

       $ podman machine set --rootful=false

       To switch the VM myvm from rootless to rootful:

       $ podman machine set --rootful myvm

SEE ALSO

       podman(1), podman-machine(1)

HISTORY

       February   2022,   Originally   compiled   by   Jason    Greene    jason.greene@redhat.com
       ⟨mailto:jason.greene@redhat.com⟩

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