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<a href="../libudev/index.html">gudev </a><span style="float:right">systemd 204</span><hr><div class="refentry"><a name="systemd-nspawn"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>systemd-nspawn — Spawn a namespace container for debugging, testing and building</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">systemd-nspawn</code> [OPTIONS...] [<em class="replaceable"><code>COMMAND</code></em>
[ARGS...]
]</p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">systemd-nspawn</code> -b [OPTIONS...] [ARGS...]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm259778472480"></a><h2 id="Description">Description<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Description"></a></h2><p><span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> may be used to
run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace
container. In many ways it is similar to
<a href="chroot.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">chroot</span>(1)</span></a>,
but more powerful since it fully virtualizes the file
system hierarchy, as well as the process tree, the
various IPC subsystems and the host and domain
name.</p><p><span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> limits access
to various kernel interfaces in the container to
read-only, such as <code class="filename">/sys</code>,
<code class="filename">/proc/sys</code> or
<code class="filename">/sys/fs/selinux</code>. Network
interfaces and the system clock may not be changed
from within the container. Device nodes may not be
created. The host system cannot be rebooted and kernel
modules may not be loaded from within the
container.</p><p>Note that even though these security precautions
are taken <span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> is not
suitable for secure container setups. Many of the
security features may be circumvented and are hence
primarily useful to avoid accidental changes to the
host system from the container. The intended use of
this program is debugging and testing as well as
building of packages, distributions and software
involved with boot and systems management.</p><p>In contrast to
<a href="chroot.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">chroot</span>(1)</span></a>
<span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> may be used to boot
full Linux-based operating systems in a
container.</p><p>Use a tool like
<a href="yum.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">yum</span>(8)</span></a>,
<a href="debootstrap.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">debootstrap</span>(8)</span></a>
or
<a href="pacman.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pacman</span>(8)</span></a>
to set up an OS directory tree suitable as file system
hierarchy for <span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span>
containers.</p><p>Note that <span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> will
mount file systems private to the container to
<code class="filename">/dev</code>,
<code class="filename">/run</code> and similar. These will
not be visible outside of the container, and their
contents will be lost when the container exits.</p><p>Note that running two
<span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> containers from the
same directory tree will not make processes in them
see each other. The PID namespace separation of the
two containers is complete and the containers will
share very few runtime objects except for the
underlying file system. It is however possible to
enter an existing container, see
<a class="link" href="#example-nsenter" title="Example 4">Example 4</a> below.
</p><p><span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> implements the
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface" target="_top">Container
Interface</a> specification.</p><p>As a safety check
<span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> will verify the
existance of <code class="filename">/etc/os-release</code> in
the container tree before starting the container (see
<a href="os-release.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">os-release</span>(5)</span></a>). It
might be necessary to add this file to the container
tree manually if the OS of the container is too old to
contain this file out-of-the-box.</p><p>Note that the kernel auditing subsystem is
currently broken when used together with
containers. We hence recommend turning it off entirely
when using <span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> by
booting with <code class="literal">audit=0</code> on the kernel
command line, or by turning it off at kernel build
time. If auditing is enabled in the kernel operating
systems booted in an nspawn container might refuse
log-in attempts.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm259782111488"></a><h2 id="Options">Options<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Options"></a></h2><p>If option <code class="option">-b</code> is specified, the
arguments are used as arguments for the init
binary. Otherwise, <em class="replaceable"><code>COMMAND</code></em>
specifies the program to launch in the container, and
the remaining arguments are used as arguments for this
program. If <code class="option">-b</code> is not used and no
arguments are specifed, a shell is launched in the
container.</p><p>The following options are understood:</p><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt id="-h"><span class="term"><code class="option">-h</code>, </span><span class="term"><code class="option">--help</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#-h"></a></dt><dd><p>Prints a short help
text and exits.</p></dd><dt id="--version"><span class="term"><code class="option">--version</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#--version"></a></dt><dd><p>Prints a version string
and exits.</p></dd><dt id="-D"><span class="term"><code class="option">-D</code>, </span><span class="term"><code class="option">--directory=</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#-D"></a></dt><dd><p>Directory to use as
file system root for the namespace
container. If omitted the current
directory will be
used.</p></dd><dt id="-b"><span class="term"><code class="option">-b</code>, </span><span class="term"><code class="option">--boot</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#-b"></a></dt><dd><p>Automatically search
for an init binary and invoke it
instead of a shell or a user supplied
program. If this option is used, arguments
specified on the command line are used
as arguments for the init binary.
</p></dd><dt id="-u"><span class="term"><code class="option">-u</code>, </span><span class="term"><code class="option">--user=</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#-u"></a></dt><dd><p>Run the command
under specified user, create home
directory and cd into it. As rest
of systemd-nspawn, this is not
the security feature and limits
against accidental changes only.
</p></dd><dt id="-M"><span class="term"><code class="option">-M</code>, </span><span class="term"><code class="option">--machine=</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#-M"></a></dt><dd><p>Sets the machine name
for this container. This name may be
used to identify this container on the
host, and is used to initialize the
container's hostname (which the
container can choose to override,
however). If not specified the last
component of the root directory of the
container is used.</p></dd><dt id="--uuid="><span class="term"><code class="option">--uuid=</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#--uuid="></a></dt><dd><p>Set the specified uuid
for the container. The init system
will initialize
<code class="filename">/etc/machine-id</code>
from this if this file is not set yet.
</p></dd><dt id="-C"><span class="term"><code class="option">-C</code>, </span><span class="term"><code class="option">--controllers=</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#-C"></a></dt><dd><p>Makes the container appear in
other hierarchies than the name=systemd:/ one.
Takes a comma-separated list of controllers.
</p></dd><dt id="--private-network"><span class="term"><code class="option">--private-network</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#--private-network"></a></dt><dd><p>Turn off networking in
the container. This makes all network
interfaces unavailable in the
container, with the exception of the
loopback device.</p></dd><dt id="--read-only"><span class="term"><code class="option">--read-only</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#--read-only"></a></dt><dd><p>Mount the root file
system read only for the
container.</p></dd><dt id="--capability="><span class="term"><code class="option">--capability=</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#--capability="></a></dt><dd><p>List one or more
additional capabilities to grant the
container. Takes a comma separated
list of capability names, see
<a href="capabilities.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">capabilities</span>(7)</span></a>
for more information. Note that the
following capabilities will be granted
in any way: CAP_CHOWN,
CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH,
CAP_FOWNER, CAP_FSETID, CAP_IPC_OWNER,
CAP_KILL, CAP_LEASE,
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE,
CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,
CAP_NET_BROADCAST, CAP_NET_RAW,
CAP_SETGID, CAP_SETFCAP, CAP_SETPCAP,
CAP_SETUID, CAP_SYS_ADMIN,
CAP_SYS_CHROOT, CAP_SYS_NICE,
CAP_SYS_PTRACE, CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG,
CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, CAP_SYS_BOOT,
CAP_AUDIT_WRITE,
CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL.</p></dd><dt id="--link-journal="><span class="term"><code class="option">--link-journal=</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#--link-journal="></a></dt><dd><p>Control whether the
container's journal shall be made
visible to the host system. If enabled
allows viewing the container's journal
files from the host (but not vice
versa). Takes one of
<code class="literal">no</code>,
<code class="literal">host</code>,
<code class="literal">guest</code>,
<code class="literal">auto</code>. If
<code class="literal">no</code>, the journal is
not linked. If <code class="literal">host</code>,
the journal files are stored on the
host file system (beneath
<code class="filename">/var/log/journal/<em class="replaceable"><code>machine-id</code></em></code>)
and the subdirectory is bind-mounted
into the container at the same
location. If <code class="literal">guest</code>,
the journal files are stored on the
guest file system (beneath
<code class="filename">/var/log/journal/<em class="replaceable"><code>machine-id</code></em></code>)
and the subdirectory is symlinked into the host
at the same location. If
<code class="literal">auto</code> (the default),
and the right subdirectory of
<code class="filename">/var/log/journal</code>
exists, it will be bind mounted
into the container. If the
subdirectory doesn't exist, no
linking is performed. Effectively,
booting a container once with
<code class="literal">guest</code> or
<code class="literal">host</code> will link the
journal persistently if further on
the default of <code class="literal">auto</code>
is used.</p></dd><dt id="-j"><span class="term"><code class="option">-j</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#-j"></a></dt><dd><p>Equivalent to
<code class="option">--link-journal=guest</code>.</p></dd><dt id="--bind="><span class="term"><code class="option">--bind=</code>, </span><span class="term"><code class="option">--bind-ro=</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#--bind="></a></dt><dd><p>Bind mount a file or
directory from the host into the
container. Either takes a path
argument -- in which case the
specified path will be mounted from
the host to the same path in the
container --, or a colon-separated
pair of paths -- in which case the
first specified path is the source in
the host, and the second path is the
destination in the container. The
<code class="option">--bind-ro=</code> option
creates read-only bind
mount.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm259777421088"></a><h2 id="Example 1">Example 1<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Example%201"></a></h2><pre class="programlisting"># yum -y --releasever=19 --nogpg --installroot=/srv/mycontainer --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=fedora install systemd passwd yum fedora-release vim-minimal
# systemd-nspawn -bD /srv/mycontainer</pre><p>This installs a minimal Fedora distribution into
the directory <code class="filename">/srv/mycontainer/</code> and
then boots an OS in a namespace container in
it.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm259777418240"></a><h2 id="Example 2">Example 2<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Example%202"></a></h2><pre class="programlisting"># debootstrap --arch=amd64 unstable ~/debian-tree/
# systemd-nspawn -D ~/debian-tree/</pre><p>This installs a minimal Debian unstable
distribution into the directory
<code class="filename">~/debian-tree/</code> and then spawns a
shell in a namespace container in it.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm259777415520"></a><h2 id="Example 3">Example 3<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Example%203"></a></h2><pre class="programlisting"># pacstrap -c -d ~/arch-tree/ base
# systemd-nspawn -bD ~/arch-tree/</pre><p>This installs a mimimal Arch Linux distribution into
the directory <code class="filename">~/arch-tree/</code> and then
boots an OS in a namespace container in it.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="example-nsenter"></a><h2 id="Example 4">Example 4<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Example%204"></a></h2><p>To enter the container, PID of one of the
processes sharing the new namespaces must be used.
<span class="command"><strong>systemd-nspawn</strong></span> prints the PID
(as viewed from the outside) of the launched process,
and it can be used to enter the container.</p><pre class="programlisting"># nsenter -m -u -i -n -p -t $PID</pre><p><a href="nsenter.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nsenter</span>(1)</span></a>
is part of
<a class="ulink" href="https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux" target="_top">util-linux</a>.
Kernel support for entering namespaces was added in
Linux 3.8.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm259777408320"></a><h2 id="Exit status">Exit status<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Exit%20status"></a></h2><p>The exit code of the program executed in the
container is returned.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm259777407072"></a><h2 id="See Also">See Also<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#See%20Also"></a></h2><p>
<a href="systemd.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd</span>(1)</span></a>,
<a href="chroot.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">chroot</span>(1)</span></a>,
<a href="unshare.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">unshare</span>(1)</span></a>,
<a href="yum.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">yum</span>(8)</span></a>,
<a href="debootstrap.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">debootstrap</span>(8)</span></a>,
<a href="pacman.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pacman</span>(8)</span></a>
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