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podman-system-migrate(1)     General Commands Manual	podman-system-migrate(1)

NAME
     podman-system-migrate - Migrate existing containers to a new podman version

SYNOPSIS
     podman system migrate [options]

DESCRIPTION
     podman system migrate migrates containers to the latest podman version.

     podman  system  migrate  takes care of migrating existing containers to the
     latest version of podman if any change is necessary.

     "Rootless Podman uses a pause process to keep the	unprivileged  namespaces
     alive.  This  prevents  any change to the /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid files
     from being propagated to the rootless containers while the pause process is
     running.

     For these changes to be propagated, it is necessary to first stop all  run-
     ning containers associated with the user and to also stop the pause process
     and  delete  its pid file.  Instead of doing it manually, podman system mi-
     grate can be used to  stop  both  the  running  containers  and  the  pause
     process.  The  /etc/subuid  and  /etc/subgid  files  can  then be edited or
     changed with usermod to recreate the user namespace with the newly  config-
     ured mappings.

OPTIONS
   --migrate-db
     Migrate from the legacy BoltDB database to SQLite.  Support for BoltDB will
     be  removed in Podman 6.0.  Podman will display a warning if this migration
     is necessary.  To ensure complete migration, all other Podman commands must
     be shut down before database migration.  In  particular,  systemd-activated
     services like podman system service and Quadlets should be manually stopped
     prior  to	migration.   If you are unsure please reboot instead and run any
     podman command afterwards which will trigger the migration automatically as
     we can ensure there that no other parallel commands can interfere with  the
     database.	 The  legacy  database	will not be removed, just renamed, so no
     permanent data loss should occur even on failure.

   --new-runtime=runtime
     Set a new OCI runtime for all containers.	This can be used after a  system
     upgrade which changes the default OCI runtime to move all containers to the
     new  runtime.  There are no guarantees that the containers continue to work
     under the new runtime, as some runtimes support differing options and  con-
     figurations.

EXAMPLES
     Normal invocation

     ### No output is expected from this command.
     $ podman system migrate

     Migration to a new OCI runtime (e.g., from crun to runc)

     ### Create a container using the current default runtime (e.g., crun)
     $ podman create --name test-alpine alpine

     ### Confirm the current runtime
     $ podman container inspect test-alpine | grep OCIRuntime
	       "OCIRuntime": "crun",

     ### Migrate all containers to use a new runtime (e.g., runc)
     $ podman system migrate --new-runtime runc

     ### Verify the container is now using the new runtime
     $ podman container inspect test-alpine | grep OCIRuntime
	       "OCIRuntime": "runc",

SEE ALSO
     podman(1), podman-system(1), usermod(8)

HISTORY
     April  2019,  Originally  compiled by Giuseppe Scrivano (gscrivan at redhat
     dot com)

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