systemd-machined.service systemd systemd-machined.service 8 systemd-machined.service systemd-machined Virtual machine and container registration manager systemd-machined.service /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-machined Description systemd-machined is a system service that keeps track of virtual machines and containers, and processes belonging to them. See systemd-nspawn1 for some examples on how to run containers with OS tools. Use nss-mymachines8 to make the names of local containers known to systemd-machined locally resolvable as host names. See the machined D-Bus API Documentation for information about the APIs systemd-machined provides. See Also systemd1, machinectl1, systemd-nspawn1, nss-mymachines8, systemd.special7