<refsect2>
<title>Image Options</title>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-D</option></term>
+ <term><option>--directory=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Directory to use as file system root for the virtual machine.</para>
+
+ <para>One of either <option>--directory=</option> or <option>--image=</option> must be specified.</para>
+ <para>Note: If mounting a non-root owned directory you may require <option>--private-users=</option>
+ to map into the user's subuid namespace.</para>
+
+ <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v256"/>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-i</option></term>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- </refsect2><refsect2>
+ </refsect2>
+
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>User Namespacing Options</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--private-users=</option><replaceable>UID_SHIFT[:UID_RANGE]</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Controls user namespacing under <option>--directory=</option>.
+ If enabled, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>virtiofsd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ is instructed to map user and group ids (UIDs and GIDs). This involves mapping the private UIDs/GIDs used in the virtual machine
+ (starting with the virtual machine's root user 0 and up) to a range of UIDs/GIDs on the host that are not used for other
+ purposes (usually in the range beyond the host's UID/GID 65536).</para>
+
+ <para>If one or two colon-separated numbers are specified, user namespacing is turned on. <replaceable>UID_SHIFT</replaceable>
+ specifies the first host UID/GID to map, <replaceable>UID_RANGE</replaceable> is optional and specifies number of host
+ UIDs/GIDs to assign to the virtual machine. If <replaceable>UID_RANGE</replaceable> is omitted, 65536 UIDs/GIDs are assigned.</para>
+
+ <para>When user namespaces are used, the GID range assigned to each virtual machine is always chosen identical to the
+ UID range.</para>
+
+ <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v256"/></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect2>
+
+ <refsect2>
<title>Credentials</title>
<variablelist>