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| author | Ashley Cui <acui@redhat.com> | 2021-04-28 14:18:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Ashley Cui <acui@redhat.com> | 2021-04-28 15:09:10 -0400 |
| commit | 53057d5c20b2abf7ffc672972cbc83018ba0ed6c (patch) | |
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| parent | 476c76f580d5cd092ff958765af36857b2a68d6c (diff) | |
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Check if another VM is running on machine start
Only one VM can be up at a time. If another VM is running, or the current VM is running, error out on a podman machine start
[NO TESTS NEEDED]
Signed-off-by: Ashley Cui <acui@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/podman-machine-start.1.md b/docs/source/markdown/podman-machine-start.1.md index 22942767a..b430f51eb 100644 --- a/docs/source/markdown/podman-machine-start.1.md +++ b/docs/source/markdown/podman-machine-start.1.md @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Podman on MacOS requires a virtual machine. This is because containers are Linux containers do not run on any other OS because containers' core functionality are tied to the Linux kernel. +Only one Podman managed VM can be active at a time. If a VM is already running, +`podman machine start` will return an error. + **podman machine start** starts a Linux virtual machine where containers are run. ## OPTIONS |