podman-machine-start(1) General Commands Manual podman-machine-start(1)
NAME
podman-machine-start - Start a virtual machine
SYNOPSIS
podman machine start [name]
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 ma-
chine must be used to manage MacOS and Windows machines, but can be op-
tionally 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, podman machine start returns an error.
podman machine start starts a Linux virtual machine where containers are
run.
OPTIONS
--help
Print usage statement.
--no-info
Suppress informational tips.
--quiet, -q
Suppress machine starting status output.
EXAMPLES
Start the specified podman machine.
$ podman machine start myvm
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-machine(1)
HISTORY
March 2021, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com
⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩
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