1crun(1) General Commands Manual crun(1)
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6 krun - crun based OCI runtime using libkrun to run containerized pro‐
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12 krun [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
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17 krun is a sub package of the crun command line program for running
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19 mat. The krun command is a symbolic link to the crun executable, that
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23 krun uses the dynamic libkrun library to run processes in an isolated
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27 libkrun integrates a VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor, the userspace side
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39 See crun.1 man page for the commands available to krun
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44 crun.1
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48 User Commands crun(1)