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importctl — Download, Import, or Export disk images. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sys
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importctl command: Download, Import, or Export disk images. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/importctl.html>.Solution
importctl — Download, Import, or Export disk images. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/importctl.html>.Download image in tarball format from a url via pull:
sudo importctl pull-tar {{URL}} {{path/to/directory}}Pull or download from a remote source that is either raw or
.qcow2 file, and stores it as a raw file:sudo importctl pull-raw {{https://example.com/source.ext}} {{name}} --class={{machine|portable|sysext|confext}}Import a raw disk image into the image directory that is possibly compressed with xz, gzip, or bzip2:
importctl import-raw {{path/to/file.ext}} {{name}} --class={{machine|portable|sysext|confext}}Export a container image as tarball into current working directory:
importctl export-tar --class={{machine|portable|sysext|confext}} {{name}} {{path/to/file.ext}}Code Snippets
Download image in tarball format from a url via pull
sudo importctl pull-tar {{URL}} {{path/to/directory}}Pull or download from a remote source that is either raw or `.qcow2` file, and stores it as a raw file
sudo importctl pull-raw {{https://example.com/source.ext}} {{name}} --class={{machine|portable|sysext|confext}}Import a raw disk image into the image directory that is possibly compressed with xz, gzip, or bzip2
importctl import-raw {{path/to/file.ext}} {{name}} --class={{machine|portable|sysext|confext}}Export a container image as tarball into current working directory
importctl export-tar --class={{machine|portable|sysext|confext}} {{name}} {{path/to/file.ext}}Context
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