# slim Turning containers into bootable VMs ## Example - Minimal Alpine Busybox ```sh # Build the container podman build ./example/alpine -t slim-alpine # Make the container bootable by extracing initrd (initial ramdisk) slim build qcow2 slim-alpine --init=/init # Boot the image using QEMU, `./example/alpine/init` will drop you into an interactive shell. slim run slim-alpine # Cleanup slim image rm slim-alpine podman image rm slim-alpine ```