systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net systemd-importd.service 8 systemd-importd.service systemd-importd Virtual machine and container import and export service systemd-importd.service /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-importd systemd-importd is a system service that allows importing, exporting and downloading of system images suitable for running as VM or containers. It is a companion service for systemd-machined.service8, and used to implement machinectl1's pull-raw, pull-tar, import-raw, import-tar, export-raw and export-tar commands. See the importd D-Bus API Documentation for information about the APIs systemd-importd provides. systemd1, machinectl1, systemd-machined.service8, systemd-nspawn1