1
0
mirror of https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git synced 2025-01-07 21:18:41 +03:00
Commit Graph

289 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Lennart Poettering
44a8ad7a24 man: document how to use --network-interface= during boot
Fixes: #18793
2021-03-04 18:55:36 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
4ef3ca3447 man: rename less-variables→common-variables
Some are not about less, e.g. $SYSTEMD_URLIFY.
2021-03-01 13:40:52 +01:00
Dmitry Borodaenko
68709a636c man/systemd-nspawn: document hashing machine name for uid base
Explicitly document the behavior introduced in #7437: when picking a new
UID shift base with "-U", a hash of the machine name will be tried
before falling back to fully random UID base candidates.
2020-12-23 10:18:03 +00:00
Torsten Hilbrich
88fc9c9bad systemd-nspawn: Allow setting ambient capability set
The old code was only able to pass the value 0 for the inheritable
and ambient capability set when a non-root user was specified.

However, sometimes it is useful to run a program in its own container
with a user specification and some capabilities set. This is needed
when the capabilities cannot be provided by file capabilities (because
the file system is mounted with MS_NOSUID for additional security).

This commit introduces the option --ambient-capability and the config
file option AmbientCapability=. Both are used in a similar way to the
existing Capability= setting. It changes the inheritable and ambient
set (which is 0 by default). The code also checks that the settings
for the bounding set (as defined by Capability= and DropCapability=)
and the setting for the ambient set (as defined by AmbientCapability=)
are compatible. Otherwise, the operation would fail in any way.

Due to the current use of -1 to indicate no support for ambient
capability set the special value "all" cannot be supported.

Also, the setting of ambient capability is restricted to running a
single program in the container payload.
2020-12-07 19:56:59 +01:00
Yu Watanabe
db9ecf0501 license: LGPL-2.1+ -> LGPL-2.1-or-later 2020-11-09 13:23:58 +09:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
5fadff3352 man/machinectl: fix pull-raw example
We do not allow machine names with "_", so the command would fail as written.
Share the example with the systemd-nspawn page instead.
2020-10-27 16:02:18 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
3b1211574b man: use trailing slash on directories in more places 2020-10-05 18:44:05 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
9e7600cfd7 man: in systemd-nspawn(1), refer to systemd.exec(5) for the shared stuff
We should avoid duplicating lengthy description of very similar concepts.
--root-hash-sig follows the same semantics as RootHashSig=, so just refer
the reader to the other man page. --root-hash doesn't implement the same
features as RootHash=, so we can't fully replace the description, but let's
give the user a hint to look at the other man page too.

For #17177.
2020-09-30 10:30:03 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
211c99c761 man: do not index various /foobar/ paths
For #17177.
2020-09-30 10:30:03 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
329cde79c4 doc: document the new GPT partition type UUIDs 2020-09-19 21:20:16 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
10e8a60baa nspawn: add --console=autopipe mode
By default we'll run a container in --console=interactive and
--console=read-only mode depending if we are invoked on a tty or not so
that the container always gets a /dev/console allocated, i.e is always
suitable to run a full init system /as those typically expect a
/dev/console to exist).

With the new --console=autopipe mode we do something similar, but
slightly different: when not invoked on a tty we'll use --console=pipe.
This means, if you invoke some tool in a container with this you'll get
full inetractivity if you invoke it on a tty but things will also be
very nicely pipeable. OTOH you cannot invoke a full init system like
this, because you might or might not become a /dev/console this way...

Prompted-by: #17070

(I named this "autopipe" rather than "auto" or so, since the default
mode probably should be named "auto" one day if we add a name for it,
and this is so similar to "auto" except that it uses pipes in the
non-tty case).
2020-09-17 16:39:27 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
508fa02d6f man: shorten description of recursive credential passing in nspawn
The text suggested that either nspawn or systemd can make use of credentials
themselves. In fact they only pass them to children.
2020-08-26 10:42:27 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
60cc90b959 man: document nspawn's new credential switches 2020-08-25 19:46:14 +02:00
Topi Miettinen
f4e1a42592 man: match parentheses
Files found with:
for f in *; do \
    l=`tr -d '[^(]' < $f | wc -c`; \
    r=`tr -d '[^)]' < $f | wc -c`; \
    if [ $l -ne $r ]; then \
       echo $f $l $r; \
    fi; \
done
2020-07-07 13:31:39 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
e9dd698407 tree-wide: fixes for assorted grammar and spelling issues
Fixes #16363. Also includes some changes where I generalized the pattern.
2020-07-06 11:29:05 +02:00
Luca Boccassi
c2923fdcd7 dissect/nspawn: add support for dm-verity root hash signature
Since cryptsetup 2.3.0 a new API to verify dm-verity volumes by a
pkcs7 signature, with the public key in the kernel keyring,
is available. Use it if libcryptsetup supports it.
2020-06-25 08:45:21 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
6b000af4f2 tree-wide: avoid some loaded terms
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-knodel-terminology-02
https://lwn.net/Articles/823224/

This gets rid of most but not occasions of these loaded terms:

1. scsi_id and friends are something that is supposed to be removed from
   our tree (see #7594)

2. The test suite defines an API used by the ubuntu CI. We can remove
   this too later, but this needs to be done in sync with the ubuntu CI.

3. In some cases the terms are part of APIs we call or where we expose
   concepts the kernel names the way it names them. (In particular all
   remaining uses of the word "slave" in our codebase are like this,
   it's used by the POSIX PTY layer, by the network subsystem, the mount
   API and the block device subsystem). Getting rid of the term in these
   contexts would mean doing some major fixes of the kernel ABI first.

Regarding the replacements: when whitelist/blacklist is used as noun we
replace with with allow list/deny list, and when used as verb with
allow-list/deny-list.
2020-06-25 09:00:19 +02:00
Luca Boccassi
e7cbe5cb9e dissect: support single-filesystem verity images with external verity hash
dm-verity support in dissect-image at the moment is restricted to GPT
volumes.
If the image a single-filesystem type without a partition table (eg: squashfs)
and a roothash/verity file are passed, set the verity flag and mark as
read-only.
2020-06-09 12:19:21 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
b68edd3006 man,mkosi: bump Fedora version 2020-06-02 14:08:35 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
a9ab5cdb50
Merge pull request #15472 from keszybz/dbus-api-docs
A few more dbus api documentation updates
2020-04-23 17:01:11 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
e309b929ba man: document the new --resolv-conf= options 2020-04-22 19:38:04 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
38b38500c6 tree-wide: use "hostname" spelling everywhere
It's not that I think that "hostname" is vastly superior to "host name". Quite
the opposite — the difference is small, and in some context the two-word version
does fit better. But in the tree, there are ~200 occurrences of the first, and
>1600 of the other, and consistent spelling is more important than any particular
spelling choice.
2020-04-21 16:58:04 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
a345d5c1c9 man,mkosi: use glibc-minimal-langpack for Fedora
This saves ~24MB of space, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_glibc-langpacks-all_from_buildroot.
2020-03-03 15:02:53 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
95d311faea man: bump fedora versions 2020-03-03 15:02:53 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
ea7fe1d1c2
Merge pull request #14390 from poettering/gpt-var-tmp
introduce GPT partition types for /var and /var/tmp and support them for auto-discovery
2020-01-14 15:37:53 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
53dc5fbc41 man: change links to container interface doc to https://systemd.io/
Now that we converted the documentation we should also link to it.
2020-01-06 18:15:07 +01:00
Kai Krakow
bc5ea049f2 nspawn: Generate unique short veth names
This commit lowers the chance of having veth name conflicts for machines
created with similar names.

Replaces: #12865
Fixes: #13417
2020-01-02 20:05:42 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
19ac32cdd6 docs: import discoverable partitions spec
This was previously available here:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/

Let's pull it into our repository.
2019-12-23 14:44:33 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
58c0663b97
Merge pull request #14099 from keszybz/machine-ref-unref-fix
Fix for the issue when machine cannot be started second time, and better nspawn logging
2019-11-22 14:33:27 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
ec56251533 man: use <constant> for capability names in nspawn page 2019-11-22 10:23:32 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
8a99bd0c46 nspawn: dump capability list with --capabilities=help 2019-11-22 10:15:46 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
b0343f8c96 man: change noindex="true" to index="false"
We nowadays prefer positive options over negative.
2019-11-21 22:03:57 +01:00
Anita Zhang
b12a67ae14 man: save pull-raw example file without underscores
Destination file needs to be a valid hostname and underscores
are not valid hostname characters.

Closes #13542
2019-11-06 10:45:03 +09:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
7a25ba554a man: reorder description of nspawn --console
The default value was described at the end of two long paragraphs.
Make the first para self contained, and move the description of --console=pipe
into the second para.
2019-10-23 10:13:30 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
bcf09321c9 man: owned to → owned by 2019-08-19 10:17:46 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
2e542f4e62 man: document that --volatile=yes is not supported for split /usr systems 2019-07-29 11:31:23 +02:00
camoz
9a02707561 systemd-nspawn(1): update example section
Remove the retired flag -d from Example 4. "Boot a minimal Arch Linux
distribution in a container". It has been retired here:
https://git.archlinux.org/arch-install-scripts.git/commit/pacstrap.in?id=0af6884aca68dcb7eed0b85fbc2960903df3d968
2019-06-25 10:47:32 +02:00
Kashyap Chamarthy
336351dc52 man: systemd-nspawn: Update syntax to launch an image
To access a shell on a disk image, the man page on Fedora-29 says to
run: `systemd-nspawn -M Fedora-Cloud-Base-28-1.1.x86_64.raw`.  Let's
try.

List existing images:

    $> machinectl list-images | awk '{print $1,$2}';
    NAME TYPE
    Fedora-Cloud-Base-30… raw

    1 images

Now invoke `systemd-nspawn` as noted in the man page:

    $> systemd-nspawn -M Fedora-Cloud-Base-30-1.2.x86_64.raw
    No image for machine 'Fedora-Cloud-Base-30-1.2.x86_64.raw'.

Removing the ".raw" extension launches the image and gives a shell.
Update the man page to reflect that.

Frantisek Sumsal on #systemd (Freenode) noted the reason: "In older
versions systemd -M accepted both image-name.raw and image-name as a
valid image names, however, on Fedora 29 (systemd-239) with all the
BTRFS stuff around it accepts only -M image-name (without the
extension)"

    - - -

While at it, update the fedora_{latest_version, cloud_release}
variables.

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
2019-05-21 07:47:37 +09:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
bb068de080 nspawn: add --no-pager switch
It only matters for --help.
2019-03-21 17:42:43 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
d99058c979 man: adjust nspawn man page to follow same section/order as --help text
No other changes, just some reshuffling and adding of section headers
(well, admittedly, I changed some "see above" and "see below" in the
text to match the new order.)
2019-03-21 13:27:48 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
3d6c367510 man: document the various new options nspawn learnt 2019-03-15 15:42:21 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
b3f6c4531e
Merge pull request #12002 from keszybz/man-headers
Man headers
2019-03-14 15:55:04 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
6cc68362d5 man: document the network interface size limits --network-veth= enforces
Fixes: #10721
2019-03-14 15:13:33 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
3a54a15760 man: use same header for all files
The "include" files had type "book" for some raeason. I don't think this
is meaningful. Let's just use the same everywhere.

$ perl -i -0pe 's^..DOCTYPE (book|refentry) PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.[25]//EN"\s+"http^<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"\n  "http^gms' man/*.xml
2019-03-14 14:42:05 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
0307f79171 man: standarize on one-line license header
No need to waste space, and uniformity is good.

$ perl -i -0pe 's|\n+<!--\s*SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1..\s*-->|\n<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ -->|gms' man/*.xml
2019-03-14 14:29:37 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
3f2fa83499 man: document that --ephemeral and --template= don't cover submounts
We never made this clear, let's fix that.
2019-03-01 16:25:03 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
b23f16283d man: document nspawn's new --volatile=overlay switch 2019-03-01 14:57:40 +01:00
Chris
87dddbaf62 Fix manpage typo: abrubtly
Fix a minor typo: abrubtly -> abruptly.
2019-02-22 17:44:21 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
514094f933 man: drop mode line in file headers
This is already included in .dir-locals, so we don't need it
in the files themselves.
2018-07-03 01:32:25 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
a7e2e50d35 summary: update nspawn description string a bit
nspawn as it is now is a generally useful tool, hence let's drop the
comments about it being useful for debug and so on only.

The new wording just makes the first sentence of the main page also the
summary.
2018-06-28 11:55:44 +09:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
fdbbee37d5 man: drop unused <authorgroup> tags from man sources
Docbook styles required those to be present, even though the templates that we
use did not show those names anywhere. But something changed semi-recently (I
would suspect docbook templates, but there was only a minor version bump in
recent years, and the changelog does not suggest anything related), and builds
now work without those entries. Let's drop this dead weight.

Tested with F26-F29, debian unstable.

$ perl -i -0pe 's/\s*<authorgroup>.*<.authorgroup>//gms' man/*xml
2018-06-14 12:22:18 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
0c69794138 tree-wide: remove Lennart's copyright lines
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
2018-06-14 10:20:20 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
818bf54632 tree-wide: drop 'This file is part of systemd' blurb
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html

The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.

hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
2018-06-14 10:20:20 +02:00
Michael Biebl
1b2ad5d9a5 doc: more spelling fixes 2018-06-12 16:31:30 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
7a8aa0ec0a man: use entities for fedora number and update URL
Fedora 28 is out already, let's advertise it. While at it, drop "container"
from "f28container" — it's a subdirectory under /var/lib/machines, it's pretty
obvious that's it a container.

To make the switch easier in the future, define the number as an entity.
2018-06-05 11:04:01 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
1688841f46 nspawn: similar to the previous patches, also make /etc/localtime handling more configurable
Fixes: #9009
2018-05-22 16:21:26 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
09d423e921 nspawn: add greater control over how /etc/resolv.conf is handled
Fixes: #8014 #1781
2018-05-22 16:19:26 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
d107bb7d63 nspawn: add a new --cpu-affinity= switch
Similar as the other options added before, this is primarily useful to
provide comprehensive OCI runtime compatbility, but might be useful
otherwise, too.
2018-05-17 20:48:54 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
81f345dfed nspawn: add a new --oom-score-adjust= command line switch
This is primarily useful in order to provide comprehensive OCI runtime
compatibility with nspawn, but might have uses outside of it.
2018-05-17 20:48:12 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
66edd96310 nspawn: add a new --no-new-privileges= cmdline option to nspawn
This simply controls the PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS flag for the container.
This too is primarily relevant to provide OCI runtime compaitiblity, but
might have other uses too, in particular as it nicely complements the
existing --capability= and --drop-capability= flags.
2018-05-17 20:47:20 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
3a9530e5f1 nspawn: make the hostname of the container explicitly configurable with a new --hostname= switch
Previously, the container's hostname was exclusively initialized from
the machine name configured with --machine=, i.e. the internal name and
the external name used for and by the container was synchronized. This
adds a new option --hostname= that optionally allows the internal name
to deviate from the external name.

This new option is mainly useful to ultimately implement the OCI runtime
spec directly in nspawn, but it might be useful on its own for some
other usecases too.
2018-05-17 20:46:45 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
bf428efb07 nspawn: add new --rlimit= switch, and always set resource limits explicitly for our container payloads
This ensures we set the various resource limits of our container
explicitly on each invocation so that we inherit less from our callers
into the payload.

By default resource limits are now set to the same values Linux
generally passes to the host PID 1, thus minimizing needless differences
between host and container environments.

The limits are now also configurable using a new --rlimit= switch. This
is preparation for teaching nspawn native OCI runtime support as OCI
permits setting resource limits for container payloads, and it hence
probably makes sense if we do too.
2018-05-17 20:45:54 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
1752d69a8b man: document what happens if --kill-signal= is not used in nspawn and --boot neither 2018-05-17 20:40:04 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
c7fc3c4cfe man: don't claim systemd-analyze was documented as part of the man-pages project
It's our own command, we document it in our own set of man pages.
2018-05-17 20:40:04 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
11a1589223 tree-wide: drop license boilerplate
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.

I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
2018-04-06 18:58:55 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
bc96c63c05 man: add a note that nspawn gives access to network by default
Fixes #6546.
2018-03-22 16:56:22 +01:00
Alan Jenkins
a30504ed69 man: systemd-nspawn: fix list of default capabilities (#7925)
* Sort them alphabetically.
* Add CAP_MKNOD (commit 7f112f50fe added it).

the list is now in sync with the one at the top of nspawn.c
2018-01-19 04:11:11 +09:00
Yu Watanabe
4deb55036b man: nspawn: add missing option 2018-01-10 23:20:20 +09:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
7f8b3d1d32 man: drop --arch from debootstrap invocation
Nowadays people use systemd on many different architectures, so we
shouldn't presuppose that they are using amd64. debootstrap defaults
to the native architecture and this should be good enough.
2018-01-04 11:16:19 +01:00
Alan Jenkins
3f2d136505 man: generalize "binary" to "program" (#7668)
Systemd services are permitted to be scripts, as well as binary
executables.

The same also applies to the underlying /sbin/mount and /sbin/swapon.
It is not necessary for the user to consider what type of program file
these are.  Nor is it necessary with systemd-nspawn, to distinguish between
init as a "binary" v.s. a user-specified "program".

Also fix a couple of grammar nits in the modified sentences.
2017-12-16 11:48:12 +01:00
Dongsu Park
d7bea6b629 nspawn: introduce an option for specifying network namespace path
Add a new option `--network-namespace-path` to systemd-nspawn to allow
users to specify an arbitrary network namespace, e.g. `/run/netns/foo`.
Then systemd-nspawn will open the netns file, pass the fd to
outer_child, and enter the namespace represented by the fd before
running inner_child.

```
$ sudo ip netns add foo
$ mount | grep /run/netns/foo
nsfs on /run/netns/foo type nsfs (rw)
...
$ sudo systemd-nspawn -D /srv/fc27 --network-namespace-path=/run/netns/foo \
  /bin/readlink -f /proc/self/ns/net
/proc/1/ns/net:[4026532009]
```

Note that the option `--network-namespace-path=` cannot be used together
with other network-related options such as `--private-network` so that
the options do not conflict with each other.

Fixes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7361
2017-12-13 10:21:06 +00:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
572eb058cf Add SPDX license identifiers to man pages 2017-11-19 19:08:15 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
994a6364d2 man: document how nspawn's --bind= and --private-users interact
Fixes: #5900
2017-11-17 11:12:33 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
bb84995789 nspawn: correctly document the relationship of --keep-unit and --register=no (#7364)
Fixes: #7228
2017-11-17 10:54:50 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
12c4ee0af3 man: mention how to provision Ubuntu and Tanglu for nspawn (#7359)
Also add urls. Urls are nice.
2017-11-16 13:40:35 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
551072321e man: recommend using /var/lib/machines in systemd-nspawn(1)
Also update the instruction to latest Fedora version.
2017-10-18 17:14:05 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
96bedbe2e5 nspawn: replace syscall blacklist by a whitelist
Let's lock things down a bit, and maintain a list of what's permitted
rather than a list of what's prohibited in nspawn (also to make things a
bit more like Docker and friends).

Note that this slightly alters the effect of --system-call-filter=, as
now the negative list now takes precedence over the positive list.
However, given that the option is just a few days old and not included
in any released version it should be fine to change it at this point in
time.

Note that the whitelist is good chunk more restrictive thatn the
previous blacklist. Specifically:

- fanotify is not permitted (given the buffer size issues it's
  problematic in containers)
- nfsservctl is not permitted (NFS server support is not virtualized)
- pkey_xyz stuff is not permitted (really new stuff I don't grok)
- @cpu-emulation is prohibited (untested legacy stuff mostly, and if
  people really want to run dosemu in nspawn, they should use
  --system-call-filter=@cpu-emulation and all should be good)
2017-09-14 15:45:21 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
960e4569e1 nspawn: implement configurable syscall whitelisting/blacklisting
Now that we have ported nspawn's seccomp code to the generic code in
seccomp-util, let's extend it to support whitelisting and blacklisting
of specific additional syscalls.

This uses similar syntax as PID1's support for system call filtering,
but in contrast to that always implements a blacklist (and not a
whitelist), as we prepopulate the filter with a blacklist, and the
unit's system call filter logic does not come with anything
prepopulated.

(Later on we might actually want to invert the logic here, and
whitelist rather than blacklist things, but at this point let's not do
that. In case we switch this over later, the syscall add/remove logic of
this commit should be compatible conceptually.)

Fixes: #5163

Replaces: #5944
2017-09-12 14:06:21 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
f518ee04d7 man: add zypper instructions for systemd-nspawn
v2:
- add -c and update the list of packages
v3:
- link to a man page on mankier.com
2017-07-02 19:11:48 -04:00
Lennart Poettering
cd2dfc6fae nspawn: register a scope for the unit if --register=no is specified (#6166)
Previously, only when --register=yes was set (the default) the invoked
container would get its own scope, created by machined on behalf of
nspawn. With this change if --register=no is set nspawn will still get
its own scope (which is a good thing, so that --slice= and --property=
take effect), but this is not done through machined but by registering a
scope unit directly in PID 1.

Summary:

--register=yes             → allocate a new scope through machined (the default)
--register=yes --keep-unit → use the unit we are already running in an register with machined
--register=no              → allocate a new scope directly, but no machined
--register=no --keep-unit  → do not allocate nor register anything

Fixes: #5823
2017-06-28 13:22:46 -04:00
Elias Probst
cf917c27b6
man: fix typo (--network-zones--network-zone) 2017-05-13 20:56:44 +02:00
AsciiWolf
28a0ad81ee man: use https:// in URLs 2017-02-21 16:28:04 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
aa10469e17 man: document that user namespacing complicates file copies 2017-02-17 11:47:20 +01:00
Martin Pitt
4997dd91fb Merge pull request #5279 from keszybz/man-reverts
A revert and some other tweaks for the man pages
2017-02-09 08:35:28 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
fc6149a6ce Merge pull request #4962 from poettering/root-directory-2
Add new MountAPIVFS= boolean unit file setting + RootImage=
2017-02-08 23:05:05 -05:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
ef3116b5d4 man: add more commas for clarify and reword a few sentences 2017-02-08 22:53:16 -05:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
3797fd0a22 man: break long lines and update Fedora versions
We should try to keep the unbreakable lines below 80 columns.
It's not always possible of course.

Also, use the dl.fp.o alias instead of a specific mirror.
2017-02-08 20:22:50 -05:00
Philip Withnall
b53ede699c nspawn: Add support for sysroot pivoting (#5258)
Add a new --pivot-root argument to systemd-nspawn, which specifies a
directory to pivot to / inside the container; while the original / is
pivoted to another specified directory (if provided). This adds
support for booting container images which may contain several bootable
sysroots, as is common with OSTree disk images. When these disk images
are booted on real hardware, ostree-prepare-root is run in conjunction
with sysroot.mount in the initramfs to achieve the same results.
2017-02-08 16:54:31 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
41488e1f7a dissect: try to read roothash value off user.verity.roothash xattr of image file
This slightly extends the roothash loading logic to first check for a
user.verity.roothash extended attribute on the image file. If it exists,
it is used as Verity root hash and the ".roothash" file is not used.

This should improve the chance that the roothash is retained when the
file is moved around, as the data snippet is attached directly to the
image file. The field is still detached from the file payload however,
in order to make sure it may be trusted independently.

This does not replace the ".roothash" file loading, it simply adds a
second way to retrieve the data.

Extended attributes are often a poor choice for storing metadata like
this as it is usually difficult to discover for admins and users, and
hard to fix if it ever gets out of sync.  However, in this case I think
it's safe as verity implies read-only access, and thus there's little
chance of it to get out of sync.
2017-02-07 12:21:29 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
91214a37ef fstab-generator: add support for volatile boots
This adds support for a new kernel command line option "systemd.volatile=" that
provides the same functionality that systemd-nspawn's --volatile= switch
provides, but for host systems (i.e. systems booting with a kernel).

It takes the same parameter and has the same effect.

In order to implement systemd.volatile=yes a new service
systemd-volatile-root.service is introduced that only runs in the initrd and
rearranges the root directory as needed to become a tmpfs instance. Note that
systemd.volatile=state is implemented different: it simply generates a
var.mount unit file that is part of the normal boot and has no effect on the
initrd execution.

The way this is implemented ensures that other explicit configuration for /var
can always override the effect of these options.  Specifically, the var.mount
unit is generated in the "late" generator directory, so that it only is in
effect if nothing else overrides it.
2016-12-21 19:09:29 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
58abb66f4b man: update the nspawn man page, and document what kind of dissection features we now support 2016-12-07 18:38:41 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
c7a4890ce4 nspawn: optionally, automatically allocated --bind=/--overlay source from /var/tmp
This extends the --bind= and --overlay= syntax so that an empty string as source/upper
directory is taken as request to automatically allocate a temporary directory
below /var/tmp, whose lifetime is bound to the nspawn runtime. In combination
with the "+" path extension this permits a switch "--overlay=+/var::/var" in
order to use the container's shipped /var, combine it with a writable temporary
directory and mount it to the runtime /var of the container.
2016-12-01 12:41:18 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
86c0dd4a71 nspawn: permit prefixing of source paths in --bind= and --overlay= with "+"
If a source path is prefixed with "+" it is taken relative to the container's
root directory instead of the host. This permits easily establishing bind and
overlay mounts based on data from the container rather than the host.

This also reworks custom_mounts_prepare(), and turns it into two functions: one
custom_mount_check_all() that remains in nspawn.c but purely verifies the
validity of the custom mounts configured. And one called
custom_mount_prepare_all() that actually does the preparation step, sorts the
custom mounts, resolves relative paths, and allocates temporary directories as
necessary.
2016-12-01 12:41:18 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
17cbb288fa nspawn: add fallback top normal copy/reflink when we cannot btrfs snapshot
Given that other file systems (notably: xfs) support reflinks these days, let's
extend the file system snapshotting logic to fall back to plan copies or
reflinks when full btrfs subvolume snapshots are not available.

This essentially makes "systemd-nspawn --ephemeral" and "systemd-nspawn
--template=" available on non-btrfs subvolumes. Of course, both operations will
still be slower on non-btrfs than on btrfs (simply because reflinking each file
individually in a directory tree is still slower than doing this in one step
for a whole subvolume), but it's probably good enough for many cases, and we
should provide the users with the tools, they have to figure out what's good
for them.

Note that "machinectl clone" already had a fallback like this in place, this
patch generalizes this, and adds similar support to our other cases.
2016-11-22 13:35:09 +01:00
Lennart Poettering
0f3be6ca4d nspawn: support ephemeral boots from images
Previously --ephemeral was only supported with container trees in btrfs
subvolumes (i.e. in combination with --directory=). This adds support for
--ephemeral in conjunction with disk images (i.e. --image=) too.

As side effect this fixes that --ephemeral was accepted but ignored when using
-M on a container that turned out to be an image.

Fixes: #4664
2016-11-22 13:35:09 +01:00
Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
2dd678171e man: typo fixes
A mix of fixes for typos and UK english
2016-10-12 23:02:44 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
ae209204d8 nspawn,man: fix parsing of numeric args for --private-users, accept any boolean
This is like the previous reverted commit, but any boolean is still accepted,
not just "yes" and "no". Man page is adjusted to match the code.
2016-10-10 11:55:06 -04:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
6265bde205 man: describe how to reverse systemd-nspawn -U
Now that systemd-nspawn@.service includes -U, more users might be interested
in this tidbit ;)
2016-10-09 18:24:56 -04:00
Stefan Schweter
96ee6ce3c9 man: Update example for downloading a Fedora image (#4166) 2016-09-16 08:22:12 -04:00
Lennart Poettering
a6b5216c7c nspawn: deprecate --share-system support
This removes the --share-system switch: from the documentation, the --help text
as well as the command line parsing. It's an ugly option, given that it kinda
contradicts the whole concept of PID namespaces that nspawn implements. Since
it's barely ever used, let's just deprecate it and remove it from the options.

It might be useful as a debugging option, hence the functionality is kept
around for now, exposed via an undocumented $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_SYSTEM
environment variable.
2016-08-03 14:52:16 +02:00