QMCTL(1)

👑 qmctl(1) — User Commands, but make it cute

okay bestie, welcome to qmctl — the user command that runs the whole QM container situation. no cap, this is the manual page. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

qmctl — manage QM container resources 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

qmctl [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS...]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So. qmctl is a command-line interface for managing Quality Management (QM) containers. It's giving ✨inspection✨, ✨execution✨, and ✨file copy✨ operations between host and container environments. Three vibes, one tool, main character energy fr fr.

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🎀 COMMANDS 🎀

• show [SUBCOMMAND] — display container-related information. The subcommands are:
  • resources — show live systemd-cgtop resource usage (CPU/memory/etc.) for qm.service. the whole live feed, obsessed 😭
  • unix-domain-sockets — show UNIX sockets inside the QM container 🔌
  • shared-memory — list shared memory segments (via ipcs) inside the container 🧠
  • namespaces — show namespace types used by the container 🦋
  • available-devices — list devices defined in the container's configuration 🎮
  • all — display all of the above with a snapshot. literally all of it. periodt 💀
• exec COMMAND... — execute a command inside the QM container. it's equivalent to podman exec on the main container, iykyk 🔥
• execin CONTAINER COMMAND... — execute a command inside a nested container (e.g., one defined inside the main QM container using systemd-nspawn or Quadlet). containers inside containers, we love a matryoshka moment 🪆
• cp SRC DST — copy files between host and QM container. either path may use the format QM:/path/to/file 💌

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. our little escape hatch 🫶
• --verbose — print accessed configuration file paths for debugging or auditing. the receipts, bestie 🧾

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Display all container-related info:

qmctl show all

Run uname -a inside the QM container:

qmctl exec uname -a

Run ls /dev inside the nested alpine container:

qmctl execin alpine ls /dev

Copy a file from host to QM:

qmctl cp /home/user/data.txt QM:/root/

Copy a file from QM container to host:

qmctl cp QM:/etc/qm/config.toml /tmp/

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

podman(1), quadlet(5), systemd(1) — the whole friend group fr fr 🫂

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⭐ HOMEPAGE ⭐

https://github.com/containers/qm — go follow, it's iconic 👑

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ok that's the whole page bestie, no skips, no skims, every flag accounted for 💯

and that's a wrap on qmctl version 1.0, dated May 2025 🎀 thanks for reading the whole thing, you ate that fr fr 💅✨🌸