NAME

       podman-machine-start - Start a virtual machine

SYNOPSIS

       podman machine start [name]

DESCRIPTION

       Starts a virtual machine for Podman.

       Podman  on macOS 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.

       Only one Podman managed VM can be active at a time. If a VM is already running, podman machine start will
       return an error.

       podman machine start starts a Linux virtual machine where containers are run.

OPTIONS

   --help
       Print usage statement.

EXAMPLES

              $ podman machine start myvm

SEE ALSO

       podman-machine (1)

HISTORY

       March 2021, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com ⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩

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