machine

• Manage a Linux Virtual Machines

• Necessary for macOS systems

• The command is sent to the VM's socket through ssh

• The gvproxy application manages port mapping between the host and VM

init

• Creates a new Fedora CoreOS Linux VM
• By default uses applehv on MacOS (instead of qemu)
• The default VM name is podman-machine-default

podman machine init # rootless, 5 cpus, 2048 memory by default

podman machine init --rootful --cpus 2 --memory 4096

list

• List all existing VMs

podman machine list

info

• Config dir: ~/.config/containers/podman/machine/applehv
• Image dir: ~/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/applehv

# display config about the created VMs
podman machine info

inspect

# all VMs
podman machine inspect

# specific VM
podman machine inspect podman-machine-default

start

• Start an existing VM

podman machine start

ssh

• ssh into the vm in a bash shell

podman machine ssh <vm>

set

# Rootless by default, this allows root access to the vm
podman machine set --rootful
podman machine set --usb vendor=0781,product=5590 # usb passthrough
podman machine ssh dmesg | grep -i "0781\|5590" # verify that the usb has been passed through

stop

• Stop existing VM

podman machine stop

rm

podman machine rm <vm>