systemd-importd.service

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## Name

systemd-importd.service, systemd-importd — VM and container image import and export service

## Synopsis

`systemd-importd.service`

`/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-importd`

## Description

systemd-importd is a system service that allows importing, exporting and downloading of system images suitable for running as VM or containers. It is a companion service for systemd-machined.service(8), and provides the implementation for machinectl(1)'s pull-raw, pull-tar, import-raw, import-tar, export-raw, and export-tar commands.

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

## See Also

systemd(1), machinectl(1), systemd-machined.service(8), systemd-nspawn(1)