Should machinectl do this?

[Tom H]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
>
> If you fire up a VM with machinectl, it mounts the guest filesystem on
> the host through a loopback device. After shutting the guest down, also
> with machinectl, the filesystem is left mounted, and the loopback
> device open.
>
> Shouldn't machinectl clean this up after itself? Is this a bug or a
> feature?

It's "loop" not "loopback". The latter's a networking term.

What do you mean by mounting "the" guest filesystem through a loop device?

Do you mean that you're bind-mounting a host directory in the guest?

What commands are you running to start and stop the container?