podman-machine-info - Man Page

Display machine host info

Synopsis

podman machine info

Description

Display information pertaining to the machine host. Rootless only, as all podman machine commands can be only be used with rootless Podman.

Options

--format, -f=format

Change output format to "json" or a Go template.

Placeholder	Description
.Host ...	Host information for local machine
.Version ...	Version of the machine

--help

Print usage statement.

Examples

$ podman machine info
Host:
  Arch: amd64
  CurrentMachine: ""
  DefaultMachine: ""
  EventsDir: /run/user/3267/podman
  MachineConfigDir: /home/myusername/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu
  MachineImageDir: /home/myusername/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/qemu
  MachineState: ""
  NumberOfMachines: 0
  OS: linux
  VMType: qemu
Version:
  APIVersion: 4.4.0
  Built: 1677097848
  BuiltTime: Wed Feb 22 15:30:48 2023
  GitCommit: aa196c0d5c9abd5800edf9e27587c60343a26c2b-dirty
  GoVersion: go1.20
  Os: linux
  OsArch: linux/amd64
  Version: 4.4.0

$ podman machine info --format json
{
  "Host": {
    "Arch": "amd64",
    "CurrentMachine": "",
    "DefaultMachine": "",
    "EventsDir": "/run/user/3267/podman",
    "MachineConfigDir": "/home/myusername/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu",
    "MachineImageDir": "/home/myusername/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/qemu",
    "MachineState": "",
    "NumberOfMachines": 0,
    "OS": "linux",
    "VMType": "qemu"
  },
  "Version": {
    "APIVersion": "4.4.0",
    "Version": "4.4.0",
    "GoVersion": "go1.20",
    "GitCommit": "aa196c0d5c9abd5800edf9e27587c60343a26c2b-dirty",
    "BuiltTime": "Wed Feb 22 15:30:48 2023",
    "Built": 1677097848,
    "OsArch": "linux/amd64",
    "Os": "linux"
  }
}

$ podman machine info --format "{{ .Host.Arch }}"
amd64

History

June 2022, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com ⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩

Referenced By

podman-machine(1).

The man page docker-machine-info(1) is an alias of podman-machine-info(1).