.img VM files of SFOS?

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Are there any available or is it possible for someone to create one?

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What do you mean? You can use virtualbox to run jolla emulator and there is guide how to install Sailfish SDK developers tool in their website

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I want to try to run it outside vbox and need an img file. Hence the question. Don’t need the SDK. Something i can for example run with systemd-vmspawn.

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its not image files, but there are podman/docker containers: GitHub - sailfishos-open/docker-sailfishos-builder: Docker based Sailfish OS build environment · GitHub

I will have to add 5.1 to the list, will hopefully do so soon.

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Still, installing it and exporting the image from there sounds like the quickest way to achieve what you want.

Presumably he is after the emulator, not the builder.

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I suspect you can use it as an emulator. maybe even somehow manage to link it with wayland on PC - but that I haven’t tested

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Maybe through WayPipe?

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My use case would be something like launch the VM with systemd-vmspawn to play around with the OS.

Feels much simpler than downloading the SDK and so on. You just have something to play around with SFOS.

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qemu-img might be your friend. It is capable of converting between a bunch of formats.

QEMU disk image utility.  Usage:

  qemu-img [standard options] COMMAND [--help | command options]
[...]
Supported image formats:

  blkdebug blklogwrites blkverify bochs cloop compress copy-before-write
  copy-on-read dmg file ftp ftps gluster host_cdrom host_device http https
  io_uring iscsi iser luks nbd nfs null-aio null-co nvme nvme-io_uring
  parallels preallocate qcow qcow2 qed quorum raw rbd replication
  snapshot-access ssh throttle vdi vhdx virtio-blk-vfio-pci
  virtio-blk-vhost-user virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa vmdk vpc vvfat

Usually, img files are of format raw.