harbour-containers
A Linux containers manager for SailfishOS
Documentation
What is it?
harbour-containers is a SailfishOS application to create, download, manage and run LXC containers. It currently relies on XWayland to run the associated desktop environment inside a new Sailifsh window:
This makes it possible to run almost any Linux desktop application, as long as there is a version compiled for your architecture. See for instance rofi and Darktable below:
While LXC containers of desktop Linux distributions are most convenient with a hardware keyboard, you can also use Onboard if your smartphone has no hardware keyboard:
A video showcasing what LXC containers can do on SailfishOS is available here.
How to use it?
Before proceeding, it's important to take a look at LXC kernel requirements:
The application also has dependencies that you can install this way:
devel-su
pkcon install zypper # If you don't have it installed already
zypper in nemo-qml-plugin-dbus-qt5 sailfish-polkit-agent python3-base python3-gobject dbus-python3
You will also need to manually download the latest releases of lxc-templates-desktop and qxdisplay and install them either from your Sailfish file manager or using:
devel-su
zypper in lxc-templates-dekstop-<VERSION>.rpm
zypper in qxdisplay-<VERSION>.rpm
Then install the latest harbour-containers release from your Sailfish file manager or using:
devel-su zypper in harbour-containers-<VERSION>.rpm`
Discussion
See the TMO thread.
License
This project is proudly licensed under GNU GPLv3.
Credits
A big "Thank you" to all the testers and contributors: