Regarding the question about the number of images (version 1.1.0)?

[diuming]

These are the steps I used, please refer to the following.
Q1) Why does container system df show 2 images, but container image ls -v only shows 1?
Q2) Why does it already show RECLAIMABLE 240.5 MB (4%) the very first time I use it? Can I delete it?

% container system start

Launching container-apiserver...
Testing access to container-apiserver...
Verifying machine API server is running...
No default kernel configured.
Install the recommended default kernel from [https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/download/3.28.0/kata-static-3.28.0-arm64.tar.zst]? [Y/n]: y
Installing kernel...

% container system status

FIELD              VALUE
status             running
appRoot            /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/com.apple.container/
installRoot        /usr/local/
logRoot            
apiserver.version  container-apiserver version 1.1.0 (build: release, commit: 5973b9c)
apiserver.commit   5973b9cc626a3e7a499bb316a958237ebe14e2ed
apiserver.build    release
apiserver.appName  container-apiserver

% container image pull --platform linux/arm64 swift
% container create --detach --no-dns -it --name swift-6.3.3 swift /bin/bash

swift-6.3.3

% container system df

TYPE           TOTAL  ACTIVE  SIZE     RECLAIMABLE
Images         2      1       5.65 GB  240.5 MB (4%)
Containers     1      0       4 KB     4 KB (100%)
Local Volumes  0      0       0 B      0 B (0%)

% container image ls -v

NAME   TAG     INDEX DIGEST  OS     ARCH   VARIANT  FULL SIZE  CREATED                         MANIFEST DIGEST
swift  latest  66520bcba471  linux  arm64  v8       1.25 GB    2026-07-02T02:38:51.985318155Z  af422a0ebfd1

% container ls --all

ID           IMAGE                           OS     ARCH   STATE    IP  CPUS  MEMORY   STARTED
swift-6.3.3  docker.io/library/swift:latest  linux  arm64  stopped      4     1024 MB  

[saehejkang]

Why does container system df show 2 images, but container image ls -v only shows 1?

Two things are happening here:

• container image ls -v intentionally hides infrastructure images (the default vminit image and/or builder image).
• container system df reports total disk usage from the image store, which includes those infrastructure images.

Why does it already show RECLAIMABLE 240.5 MB (4%) the very first time I use it? Can I delete it?

Reclaimable means data not currently required by active containers. You wouldn't really want to remove those images, as they are needed for the container tool to work.