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incus — Modern, secure, and powerful system container and virtual machine manager. More information: <https:

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Problem

How to use the incus command: Modern, secure, and powerful system container and virtual machine manager. More information: <https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/>.

Solution

incus — Modern, secure, and powerful system container and virtual machine manager. More information: <https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/>.

List all containers and virtual machines (both running and stopped):

incus list

Create a container from an image, with a custom name:

incus create {{image}} {{container_name}}

Start or stop an existing container:

incus {{start|stop}} {{container_name}}

Open a shell inside an already running container:

incus shell {{container_name}}

Remove a stopped container:

incus delete {{container_name}}

Pull an image from an image repository (remote) to local:

incus copy {{remote}}:{{image}} local:{{custom_image_name}}

List all available images in the official images: remote:

incus image list images:

List all images already downloaded to the local: remote:

incus image list local:

Code Snippets

List all containers and virtual machines (both running and stopped)

incus list

Create a container from an image, with a custom name

incus create {{image}} {{container_name}}

Start or stop an existing container

incus {{start|stop}} {{container_name}}

Open a shell inside an already running container

incus shell {{container_name}}

Remove a stopped container

incus delete {{container_name}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/incus

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