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importctl

Download, Import, or Export disk images. More information: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/importctl.html.

• Download image in tarball format from a url via pull:

sudo importctl pull-tar {{url}} {{path/to/directory}}

• Pull or download from a remote source that is either raw or .qcow2 file, and stores it as a raw file:

sudo importctl pull-raw {{https://example.com/source.ext}} {{name}} --class={{machine|portable|sysext|confext}}

• Import a raw disk image into the image directory that is possibly compressed with xz, gzip, or bzip2:

importctl import-raw {{path/to/file.ext}} {{name}} --class={{machine|portable|sysext|confext}}

• Export a container image as tarball into current working directory:

importctl export-tar --class={{machine|portable|sysext|confext}} {{name}} {{path/to/file.ext}}