systemd-machined.service

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## Name

systemd-machined.service, systemd-machined — Virtual machine and container registration manager

## Synopsis

`systemd-machined.service`

`/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-machined`

## Description

systemd-machined is a system service that keeps track of virtual machines and containers, and processes belonging to them.

See systemd-nspawn(1) for some examples on how to run containers with OS tools.

Use nss-mymachines(8) to make the names of local containers known to systemd-machined locally resolvable as host names.

See the machined D-Bus API Documentation for information about the APIs `systemd-machined` provides.

## See Also

systemd(1), machinectl(1), systemd-nspawn(1), nss-mymachines(8), systemd.special(7)