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+# boco runner: compiles boco (static musl) AND the shared boco kernel (vmlinuz)
+# with the slim config checked into the boco repo, then serves as the runtime
+# image for `boco build` / `boco boot` under podman.
+#
+# Runtime requirements (boco shells out to nested rootless podman):
+#   --device /dev/kvm      KVM accel for the VMs (entrypoint chmods it)
+#   --device /dev/net/tun  only if nested container runs need pasta networking
+#   volume at /home/boco/.local/share/boco   persistent registry (images+kernel)
+#   NO --privileged: the container's own userns (single mapping) is what makes
+#   nested `podman unshare` work; ignore_chown_errors handles unmapped uids.
+#
+# Kernel source: pinned tarball linux-7.2 (= 8d3ae59288f1e7d58d76558a6ee96d533bc5019f,
+# verified == refs/tags/v7.2{} via git ls-remote), sha256-checked.
+
+FROM alpine:edge AS build
+RUN apk add --no-cache rust cargo git
+WORKDIR /src
+COPY . .
+# alpine's rust targets x86_64-alpine-linux-musl natively (static, no glibc dep)
+RUN cargo build --release -p boco -p boco-init \
+ && strip target/release/boco target/release/boco-init
+
+FROM alpine:3.22 AS kernel
+# g++ for host tools, libelf for objtool, openssl for extract-cert
+RUN apk add --no-cache make gcc g++ musl-dev perl flex bison bc \
+      elfutils-dev openssl-dev findutils tar xz zstd curl linux-headers
+WORKDIR /kbuild
+# Pinned upstream tarball: linux-7.2.tar.xz, sha256
+# f9fef3d14c0df53819026f4be74459835c2a0b0dcbf5b5bbd9ea19f0829402b3.
+# (Equivalent to user's shallow pin 8d3ae59288f1e7d58d76558a6ee96d533bc5019f
+# = refs/tags/v7.2{} — verified via `git ls-remote`; the tarball avoids
+# a multi-GB shallow clone through flaky slirp NAT.)
+RUN curl -fsSLo /tmp/linux-7.2.tar.xz https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v7.x/linux-7.2.tar.xz \
+ && echo "f9fef3d14c0df53819026f4be74459835c2a0b0dcbf5b5bbd9ea19f0829402b3  /tmp/linux-7.2.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c - \
+ && tar -xJf /tmp/linux-7.2.tar.xz \
+ && mv linux-7.2 linux
+# Install the slim kernel config checked into the boco repo; olddefconfig
+# normalizes it against this tree and fails nothing silently afterwards.
+COPY kernel/config /kbuild/linux/.config
+RUN make -C linux olddefconfig HOSTCC=gcc CC=gcc \
+ && grep -qE '^(# )?CONFIG_MODULES' linux/.config
+RUN make -C linux -j"$(nproc)" bzImage HOSTCC=gcc CC=gcc \
+ && cp linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage /vmlinuz \
+ && ls -lh /vmlinuz
+
+FROM alpine:3.22
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
+      qemu-system-x86_64 qemu-img virtiofsd \
+      podman fuse3 openssh-client ca-certificates iptables ip6tables \
+      e2fsprogs cpio passt \
+ && adduser -D -s /bin/sh boco \
+ && echo boco:100000:65536 > /etc/subuid \
+ && echo boco:100000:65536 > /etc/subgid \
+ && mkdir -p /etc/containers \
+ && printf '[storage]\ndriver = "vfs"\nrunroot = "/run/containers/storage"\ngraphroot = "/var/lib/containers/storage"\n[storage.options]\nignore_chown_errors = "true"\n' > /etc/containers/storage.conf \
+ && printf '#!/bin/sh\n[ -e /dev/kvm ] && chmod 666 /dev/kvm\nexec /usr/local/bin/boco "$@"\n' > /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh \
+ && chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh
+COPY --from=build /src/target/release/boco /usr/local/bin/boco
+COPY --from=build /src/target/release/boco-init /home/boco/.local/share/boco/boco-init
+COPY --from=kernel /vmlinuz /home/boco/.local/share/boco/vmlinuz
+RUN chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/boco /home/boco/.local/share/boco/boco-init /home/boco/.local/share/boco/vmlinuz
+ENV XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/boco/.local/share
+ENV XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/boco/.local/share
+WORKDIR /data
+ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD ["image", "list"]