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"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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4 <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later -->
6 <refentry id=
"org.freedesktop.machine1" conditional='ENABLE_MACHINED'
7 xmlns:
xi=
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
9 <title>org.freedesktop.machine1
</title>
10 <productname>systemd
</productname>
14 <refentrytitle>org.freedesktop.machine1
</refentrytitle>
15 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
19 <refname>org.freedesktop.machine1
</refname>
20 <refpurpose>The D-Bus interface of systemd-machined
</refpurpose>
24 <title>Introduction
</title>
27 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
28 is a system service that keeps track of locally running virtual machines and containers.
29 This page describes the D-Bus interface.
</para>
33 <title>The Manager Object
</title>
35 <para>The service exposes the following interfaces on the Manager object on the bus:
</para>
37 <programlisting executable=
"systemd-machined" node=
"/org/freedesktop/machine1" interface=
"org.freedesktop.machine1.Manager">
38 node /org/freedesktop/machine1 {
39 interface org.freedesktop.machine1.Manager {
45 GetMachineByPID(in u pid,
47 ListMachines(out a(ssso) machines);
48 ListImages(out a(ssbttto) images);
49 @org.freedesktop.systemd1.Privileged(
"true")
50 CreateMachine(in s name,
56 in a(sv) scope_properties,
58 @org.freedesktop.systemd1.Privileged(
"true")
59 CreateMachineWithNetwork(in s name,
66 in a(sv) scope_properties,
68 @org.freedesktop.systemd1.Privileged(
"true")
69 RegisterMachine(in s name,
76 @org.freedesktop.systemd1.Privileged(
"true")
77 RegisterMachineWithNetwork(in s name,
85 UnregisterMachine(in s name);
86 TerminateMachine(in s id);
87 KillMachine(in s name,
90 GetMachineAddresses(in s name,
91 out a(iay) addresses);
92 GetMachineOSRelease(in s name,
94 @org.freedesktop.systemd1.Privileged(
"true")
95 OpenMachinePTY(in s name,
98 OpenMachineLogin(in s name,
101 OpenMachineShell(in s name,
108 BindMountMachine(in s name,
113 CopyFromMachine(in s name,
116 CopyToMachine(in s name,
119 CopyFromMachineWithFlags(in s name,
123 CopyToMachineWithFlags(in s name,
127 OpenMachineRootDirectory(in s name,
129 GetMachineUIDShift(in s name,
131 RemoveImage(in s name);
132 RenameImage(in s name,
134 CloneImage(in s name,
137 MarkImageReadOnly(in s name,
139 GetImageHostname(in s name,
141 GetImageMachineID(in s name,
143 GetImageMachineInfo(in s name,
144 out a{ss} machine_info);
145 GetImageOSRelease(in s name,
146 out a{ss} os_release);
147 SetPoolLimit(in t size);
148 SetImageLimit(in s name,
152 MapFromMachineUser(in s name,
155 MapToMachineUser(in u uid_outer,
159 MapFromMachineGroup(in s name,
162 MapToMachineGroup(in u gid_outer,
167 MachineNew(s machine,
169 MachineRemoved(s machine,
172 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"false")
173 readonly s PoolPath = '...';
174 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"false")
175 readonly t PoolUsage = ...;
176 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"false")
177 readonly t PoolLimit = ...;
179 interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer { ... };
180 interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable { ... };
181 interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties { ... };
185 <!--method UnregisterMachine is not documented!-->
187 <!--method OpenMachineRootDirectory is not documented!-->
189 <!--method GetMachineUIDShift is not documented!-->
191 <!--method GetImageHostname is not documented!-->
193 <!--method GetImageMachineID is not documented!-->
195 <!--method GetImageMachineInfo is not documented!-->
197 <!--method GetImageOSRelease is not documented!-->
199 <!--method CleanPool is not documented!-->
201 <!--Autogenerated cross-references for systemd.directives, do not edit-->
203 <variablelist class=
"dbus-interface" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"org.freedesktop.machine1.Manager"/>
205 <variablelist class=
"dbus-interface" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"org.freedesktop.machine1.Manager"/>
207 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetMachine()"/>
209 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetImage()"/>
211 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetMachineByPID()"/>
213 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"ListMachines()"/>
215 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"ListImages()"/>
217 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CreateMachine()"/>
219 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CreateMachineWithNetwork()"/>
221 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"RegisterMachine()"/>
223 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"RegisterMachineWithNetwork()"/>
225 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"UnregisterMachine()"/>
227 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"TerminateMachine()"/>
229 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"KillMachine()"/>
231 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetMachineAddresses()"/>
233 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetMachineOSRelease()"/>
235 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"OpenMachinePTY()"/>
237 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"OpenMachineLogin()"/>
239 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"OpenMachineShell()"/>
241 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"BindMountMachine()"/>
243 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CopyFromMachine()"/>
245 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CopyToMachine()"/>
247 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CopyFromMachineWithFlags()"/>
249 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CopyToMachineWithFlags()"/>
251 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"OpenMachineRootDirectory()"/>
253 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetMachineUIDShift()"/>
255 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"RemoveImage()"/>
257 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"RenameImage()"/>
259 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CloneImage()"/>
261 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"MarkImageReadOnly()"/>
263 <variablelist class=
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"True" extra-ref=
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265 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
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267 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetImageMachineInfo()"/>
269 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
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"GetImageOSRelease()"/>
271 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
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273 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
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275 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
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277 <variablelist class=
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279 <variablelist class=
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281 <variablelist class=
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"True" extra-ref=
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283 <variablelist class=
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285 <variablelist class=
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"MachineNew()"/>
287 <variablelist class=
"dbus-signal" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"MachineRemoved()"/>
289 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"PoolPath"/>
291 <variablelist class=
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"True" extra-ref=
"PoolUsage"/>
293 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"PoolLimit"/>
295 <!--End of Autogenerated section-->
298 <title>Methods
</title>
300 <para><function>GetMachine()
</function> may be used to get the machine object path for the machine with
301 the specified name. Similarly,
<function>GetMachineByPID()
</function> gets the machine object the
302 specified PID belongs to if there is any.
</para>
304 <para><function>GetImage()
</function> may be used to get the image object path of the image with the
305 specified name.
</para>
307 <para><function>ListMachines()
</function> returns an array of all currently registered machines. The
308 structures in the array consist of the following fields: machine name, machine class, an identifier for
309 the service that registered the machine and the machine object path.
</para>
311 <para><function>ListImages()
</function> returns an array of all currently known images. The
312 structures in the array consist of the following fields: image name, type, read-only flag, creation
313 time, modification time, current disk space, and image object path.
</para>
315 <para><function>CreateMachine()
</function> may be used to register a new virtual machine or container
316 with
<command>systemd-machined
</command>, creating a scope unit for it. It accepts the following arguments: a
317 machine name chosen by the registrar, an optional UUID as a
32 byte array, a string that identifies the
318 service that registers the machine, a class string, the PID of the leader process of the machine, an
319 optional root directory of the container, and an array of additional properties to use for the scope
320 registration. The virtual machine name must be suitable as a hostname, and hence should follow the usual
321 DNS hostname rules, as well as the Linux hostname restrictions. Specifically, only
7 bit ASCII is
322 permitted, a maximum length of
64 characters is enforced, only characters from the set
323 <literal>a-zA-Z0-
9-_.
</literal> are allowed, the name may not begin with a dot, and it may not contain
324 two dots immediately following each other. Container and VM managers should ideally use the hostname
325 used internally in the machine for this parameter. This recommendation is made in order to make the
326 machine name naturally resolvable using
327 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nss-mymachines
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>. If
328 a container manager needs to embed characters outside of the indicated range, escaping is required,
329 possibly using
<literal>_
</literal> as the escape character. Another (somewhat natural) option would be
330 to utilize Internet IDNA encoding. The UUID is passed as a
32 byte array or, if no suitable UUID is
331 available, an empty array (zero length) or zeroed out array shall be passed. The UUID should identify
332 the virtual machine/container uniquely and should ideally be the same UUID that
333 <filename>/etc/machine-id
</filename> in the VM/container is initialized from. The service string can be
334 free-form, but it is recommended to pass a short lowercase identifier like
335 <literal>systemd-nspawn
</literal>,
<literal>libvirt-lxc
</literal> or similar. The class string should
336 be either
<literal>container
</literal> or
<literal>vm
</literal> indicating whether the machine to
337 register is of the respective class. The leader PID should be the host PID of the init process of the
338 container or the encapsulating process of the VM. If the root directory of the container is known and
339 available in the host's hierarchy, it should be passed. Otherwise, pass the empty string instead. Finally, the
340 scope properties are passed as array in the same way as to PID1's
341 <function>StartTransientUnit()
</function> method. Calling this method will internally register a transient scope
342 unit for the calling client (utilizing the passed scope_properties) and move the leader PID into
343 it. The method returns an object path for the registered machine object that implements the
344 <interfacename>org.freedesktop.machine1.Machine
</interfacename> interface (see below). Also see the
345 <ulink url=
"https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface">New Control Group
346 Interfaces
</ulink> for details about scope units and how to alter resource control settings on the
347 created machine at runtime.
</para>
349 <para><function>RegisterMachine()
</function> is similar to
<function>CreateMachine()
</function>.
350 However, it only registers a machine and does not create a scope unit for it. Instead, the caller's unit is
351 registered. We recommend to only use this method for container or VM managers that are run
352 multiple times, one instance for each container/VM they manage, and are invoked as system
355 <para><function>CreateMachineWithNetwork()
</function> and
356 <function>RegisterMachineWithNetwork()
</function> are similar to
<function>CreateMachine()
</function>
357 and
<function>RegisterMachine()
</function> but take an extra argument: an array of network interface
358 indices that point towards the virtual machine or container. The interface indices should reference one
359 or more network interfaces on the host that can be used to communicate with the guest. Commonly, the
360 passed interface index refers to the host side of a
"veth" link (in case of containers), a
361 "tun"/
"tap" link (in case of VMs), or the host side of a bridge interface that bridges access to the
362 VM/container interfaces. Specifying this information is useful to enable support for link-local IPv6
363 communication to the machines since the scope field of sockaddr_in6 can be initialized by the
365 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nss-mymachines
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
366 makes use of this information.
</para>
368 <para><function>KillMachine()
</function> sends a UNIX signal to the machine's processes. As its arguments, it takes a
369 machine name (as originally passed to
<function>CreateMachine()
</function> or returned by
370 <function>ListMachines()
</function>), an identifier that specifies what precisely to send the signal to (either
371 <literal>leader
</literal> or
<literal>all
</literal>), and a numeric UNIX signal integer.
</para>
373 <para><function>TerminateMachine()
</function> terminates a virtual machine, killing its processes. It
374 takes a machine name as its only argument.
</para>
376 <para><function>GetMachineAddresses()
</function> retrieves the IP addresses of a container. This method
377 returns an array of pairs consisting of an address family specifier (
<constant>AF_INET
</constant> or
378 <constant>AF_INET6
</constant>) and a byte array containing the addresses. This is only supported for
379 containers that make use of network namespacing.
</para>
381 <para><function>GetMachineOSRelease()
</function> retrieves the OS release information of a
382 container. This method returns an array of key value pairs read from the
383 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>os-release
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> file in
384 the container and is useful to identify the operating system used in a container.
</para>
386 <para><function>OpenMachinePTY()
</function> allocates a pseudo TTY in the container and returns a file
387 descriptor and its path. This is equivalent to transitioning into the container and invoking
388 <citerefentry project=
"man-pages"><refentrytitle>posix_openpt
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
391 <para><function>OpenMachineLogin()
</function> allocates a pseudo TTY in the container and ensures that
392 a getty login prompt of the container is running on the other end. It returns the file descriptor of
393 the PTY and the PTY path. This is useful for acquiring a pty with a login prompt from the
396 <para><function>OpenMachineShell()
</function> allocates a pseudo TTY in the container, as the specified
397 user, and invokes the executable at the specified path with a list of arguments (starting from
398 argv[
0]) and an environment block. It then returns the file descriptor of the PTY and the PTY
401 <para><function>BindMountMachine()
</function> bind mounts a file or directory from the host into the
402 container. Its arguments consist of a machine name, the source directory on the host, the destination directory in the
403 container, and two booleans, one indicating whether the bind mount shall be
404 read-only, the other indicating whether the destination mount point shall be created first, if it is
407 <para><function>CopyFromMachine()
</function> copies files or directories from a container into the
408 host. It takes a container name, a source directory in the container and a destination directory on the
410 <function>CopyToMachine()
</function> does the opposite and copies files from a source
411 directory on the host into a destination directory in the container.
412 <function>CopyFromMachineWithFlags()
</function> and
<function>CopyToMachineWithFlags()
</function> do the same but take an additional flags argument.
</para>
414 <para><function>RemoveImage()
</function> removes the image with the specified name.
</para>
416 <para><function>RenameImage()
</function> renames the specified image.
</para>
418 <para><function>CloneImage()
</function> clones the specified image under a new name. It also takes a
419 boolean argument indicating whether the resulting image shall be read-only or not.
</para>
421 <para><function>MarkImageReadOnly()
</function> toggles the read-only flag of an image.
</para>
423 <para><function>SetPoolLimit()
</function> sets an overall quota limit on the pool of images.
</para>
425 <para><function>SetImageLimit()
</function> sets a per-image quota limit.
</para>
427 <para><function>MapFromMachineUser()
</function>,
<function>MapToMachineUser()
</function>,
428 <function>MapFromMachineGroup()
</function>, and
<function>MapToMachineGroup()
</function> may be used to map
429 UIDs/GIDs from the host user namespace to a container user namespace or vice versa.
</para>
433 <title>Signals
</title>
435 <para><function>MachineNew()
</function> and
<function>MachineRemoved()
</function> are sent whenever a new
436 machine is registered or removed. These signals carry the machine name and the object path to the corresponding
437 <interfacename>org.freedesktop.machine1.Machine
</interfacename> interface (see below).
</para>
441 <title>Properties
</title>
443 <para><varname>PoolPath
</varname> specifies the file system path where images are written to.
</para>
445 <para><varname>PoolUsage
</varname> specifies the current usage size of the image pool in bytes.
</para>
447 <para><varname>PoolLimit
</varname> specifies the size limit of the image pool in bytes.
</para>
452 <title>Machine Objects
</title>
454 <programlisting executable=
"systemd-machined" node=
"/org/freedesktop/machine1/machine/rawhide" interface=
"org.freedesktop.machine1.Machine">
455 node /org/freedesktop/machine1/machine/rawhide {
456 interface org.freedesktop.machine1.Machine {
461 GetAddresses(out a(iay) addresses);
462 GetOSRelease(out a{ss} fields);
463 GetUIDShift(out u shift);
474 BindMount(in s source,
478 CopyFrom(in s source,
482 CopyFromWithFlags(in s source,
485 CopyToWithFlags(in s source,
488 OpenRootDirectory(out h fd);
490 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
491 readonly s Name = '...';
492 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
493 readonly ay Id = [...];
494 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
495 readonly t Timestamp = ...;
496 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
497 readonly t TimestampMonotonic = ...;
498 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
499 readonly s Service = '...';
500 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
501 readonly s Unit = '...';
502 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
503 readonly u Leader = ...;
504 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
505 readonly s Class = '...';
506 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
507 readonly s RootDirectory = '...';
508 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"const")
509 readonly ai NetworkInterfaces = [...];
510 @org.freedesktop.DBus.Property.EmitsChangedSignal(
"false")
511 readonly s State = '...';
513 interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer { ... };
514 interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable { ... };
515 interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties { ... };
519 <!--method GetUIDShift is not documented!-->
521 <!--method OpenPTY is not documented!-->
523 <!--method OpenLogin is not documented!-->
525 <!--method OpenShell is not documented!-->
527 <!--method BindMount is not documented!-->
529 <!--method CopyFrom is not documented!-->
531 <!--method CopyTo is not documented!-->
533 <!--method CopyFromWithFlags is not documented!-->
535 <!--method CopyToWithFlags is not documented!-->
537 <!--method OpenRootDirectory is not documented!-->
539 <!--Autogenerated cross-references for systemd.directives, do not edit-->
541 <variablelist class=
"dbus-interface" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"org.freedesktop.machine1.Machine"/>
543 <variablelist class=
"dbus-interface" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"org.freedesktop.machine1.Machine"/>
545 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"Terminate()"/>
547 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"Kill()"/>
549 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetAddresses()"/>
551 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetOSRelease()"/>
553 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"GetUIDShift()"/>
555 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"OpenPTY()"/>
557 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"OpenLogin()"/>
559 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"OpenShell()"/>
561 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"BindMount()"/>
563 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CopyFrom()"/>
565 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CopyTo()"/>
567 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CopyFromWithFlags()"/>
569 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"CopyToWithFlags()"/>
571 <variablelist class=
"dbus-method" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"OpenRootDirectory()"/>
573 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"Name"/>
575 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"Id"/>
577 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"Timestamp"/>
579 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"TimestampMonotonic"/>
581 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"Service"/>
583 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"Unit"/>
585 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"Leader"/>
587 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"Class"/>
589 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"RootDirectory"/>
591 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"NetworkInterfaces"/>
593 <variablelist class=
"dbus-property" generated=
"True" extra-ref=
"State"/>
595 <!--End of Autogenerated section-->
598 <title>Methods
</title>
600 <para><function>Terminate()
</function> and
<function>Kill()
</function> terminate/kill the machine. These methods
601 take the same arguments as
<function>TerminateMachine()
</function> and
602 <function>KillMachine()
</function> on the Manager interface, respectively.
</para>
604 <para><function>GetAddresses()
</function> and
<function>GetOSRelease()
</function> get the IP address and OS
605 release information from the machine. These methods take the same arguments as
606 <function>GetMachineAddresses()
</function> and
<function>GetMachineOSRelease()
</function> of the
607 Manager interface, respectively.
</para>
611 <title>Properties
</title>
613 <para><varname>Name
</varname> is the machine name as it was passed in during registration with
614 <function>CreateMachine()
</function> on the manager object.
</para>
616 <para><varname>Id
</varname> is the machine UUID.
</para>
618 <para><varname>Timestamp
</varname> and
<varname>TimestampMonotonic
</varname> are the realtime and
619 monotonic timestamps when the virtual machines where created in microseconds since the epoch.
</para>
621 <para><varname>Service
</varname> contains a short string identifying the registering service as passed
622 in during registration of the machine.
</para>
624 <para><varname>Unit
</varname> is the systemd scope or service unit name for the machine.
</para>
626 <para><varname>Leader
</varname> is the PID of the leader process of the machine.
</para>
628 <para><varname>Class
</varname> is the class of the machine and is either the string
"vm" (for real VMs
629 based on virtualized hardware) or
"container" (for light-weight userspace virtualization sharing the
630 same kernel as the host).
</para>
632 <para><varname>RootDirectory
</varname> is the root directory of the container if it is known and
633 applicable or the empty string.
</para>
635 <para><varname>NetworkInterfaces
</varname> contains an array of network interface indices that point
636 towards the container, the VM or the host. For details about this information see the description of
637 <function>CreateMachineWithNetwork()
</function> above.
</para>
639 <para><varname>State
</varname> is the state of the machine and is one of
<literal>opening
</literal>,
640 <literal>running
</literal>, or
<literal>closing
</literal>. Note that the state machine is not considered
641 part of the API and states might be removed or added without this being considered API breakage.
647 <title>Examples
</title>
650 <title>Introspect
<interfacename>org.freedesktop.machine1.Manager
</interfacename> on the bus
</title>
653 $ gdbus introspect --system \
654 --dest org.freedesktop.machine1 \
655 --object-path /org/freedesktop/machine1
660 <title>Introspect
<interfacename>org.freedesktop.machine1.Machine
</interfacename> on the bus
</title>
663 $ gdbus introspect --system \
664 --dest org.freedesktop.machine1 \
665 --object-path /org/freedesktop/machine1/machine/rawhide
670 <xi:include href=
"org.freedesktop.locale1.xml" xpointer=
"versioning"/>
673 <title>History
</title>
675 <title>The Manager Object
</title>
676 <para><function>CopyFromMachineWithFlags()
</function> and
677 <function>CopyToMachineWithFlags()
</function> were added in version
252.
</para>
680 <title>Machine Objects
</title>
681 <para><function>CopyFromWithFlags()
</function> and
682 <function>CopyToWithFlags()
</function> were added in version
252.
</para>