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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