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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON 

SYSTEMD-I....SERVICE(8)  systemd-importd.service  SYSTEMD-I....SERVICE(8)

NAME         top

       systemd-importd.service, systemd-importd - VM and container image
       import and export service

SYNOPSIS         top

       systemd-importd.service

       /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-importd

DESCRIPTION         top

       systemd-importd is a system service that allows importing,
       exporting and downloading of disk images. It provides the
       implementation for importctl(1)'s pull-raw, pull-tar, import-raw,
       import-tar, import-fs, export-raw, and export-tar commands.

       See org.freedesktop.import1(5) and org.freedesktop.LogControl1(5)
       for a description of the D-Bus API.

SEE ALSO         top

       systemd(1), importctl(1), systemd-machined.service(8),
       systemd-nspawn(1), org.freedesktop.import1(5)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the systemd (systemd system and service
       manager) project.  Information about the project can be found at
       ⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩.  If you have a
       bug report for this manual page, see
       ⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#bugreports⟩.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.  (At that
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systemd 258~rc2                                   SYSTEMD-I....SERVICE(8)

Pages that refer to this page: importctl(1),  org.freedesktop.import1(5),  systemd.directives(7),  systemd.index(7),  systemd-import-generator(8),  systemd-machined.service(8)

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