podman-machine-start
Start a virtual machine
- Provided by: podman (Version: 3.4.4+ds1-1ubuntu1.22.04.3)
- Source: libpod
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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⟩