NAME

podman-machine-set - Set a virtual machine setting

SYNOPSIS

podman machine set [options] [name]

DESCRIPTION

Change a machine setting.

The default machine name is podman-machine-default. If a machine name is not specified as an argument, then the settings will be applied to podman-machine-default.

Rootless only.

OPTIONS

--cpus=number

Number of CPUs. Only supported for QEMU machines.

--disk-size=number

Size of the disk for the guest VM in GB. Can only be increased. Only supported for QEMU machines.

--help

Print usage statement.

--memory, -m=number

Memory (in MB). Only supported for QEMU machines.

--rootful

Whether this machine prefers rootful (true) or rootless (false) container execution. This option updates the current podman remote connection default if it is currently pointing at the specified machine name (or podman-machine-default if no name is specified).

--user-mode-networking

Indicates that this machine relays traffic from the guest through a user-space process running on the host. In some VPN configurations the VPN may drop traffic from alternate network interfaces, including VM network devices. By enabling user-mode networking (a setting of true), VPNs observe all podman machine traffic as coming from the host, bypassing the problem.

When the qemu backend is used (Linux, Mac), user-mode networking is mandatory and the only allowed value is true. In contrast, The Windows/WSL backend defaults to false, and follows the standard WSL network setup. Changing this setting to true on Windows/WSL informs Podman to replace the WSL networking setup on start of this machine instance with a user-mode networking distribution. Since WSL shares the same kernel across distributions, all other running distributions reuses this network. Likewise, when the last machine instance with a true setting stops, the original networking setup is restored.

Unlike podman system connection default this option makes the API socket, if available, forward to the rootful/rootless socket in the VM.

EXAMPLES

To switch the default VM podman-machine-default from rootless to rootful:

$ podman machine set --rootful

or more explicitly:

$ podman machine set --rootful=true

To switch the default VM podman-machine-default from rootful to rootless:

$ podman machine set --rootful=false

To switch the VM myvm from rootless to rootful:

$ podman machine set --rootful myvm

SEE ALSO

podman(1), podman-machine(1)

HISTORY

February 2022, Originally compiled by Jason Greene jason.greene@redhat.com