marvin
c3b6a72d39
QEMU QemuOpts splits on commas; escape literal commas in the host path as ,, per QEMU convention to prevent option injection and boot failures on paths containing commas. Fix U5: extract b64dec() helper in slim-init.sh Deduplicate the 3-line base64 fallback decode block used by both the slim.mount and slim.cmd handlers into a single b64dec() function. Fix U6: add multi-mount test case test_mount now passes two --mount flags and asserts both slim0 and slim1 9p tags appear, covering the multi-mount tag-generation path.
slim
Turning containers into bootable VMs
Example
# Build the container
podman build ./example/alpine -t slim-alpine
# Make the container bootable. slim injects /slim/init and /slim/exec,
# then packs the rootfs as a qcow2 disk.
slim build qcow2 slim-alpine
# Boot the image using QEMU. The container's CMD runs automatically.
slim run slim-alpine
# Override the command at runtime (base64-encoded on the kernel cmdline):
slim run slim-alpine --cmd '/bin/sh'
# Override the command at build time (baked into /slim/exec):
slim build qcow2 slim-alpine --cmd '/bin/sh'
# Cleanup
slim image rm slim-alpine
podman image rm slim-alpine
Kernel
slim boots VMs using a shared kernel at $XDG_DATA_HOME/slim-rs/registry/vmlinuz.
Place a suitable x86 bzImage there before running slim run.