diff --git a/src/components/volatileFilesystem.c b/src/components/volatileFilesystem.c
index 83fc6d1..27e9ed1 100644
--- a/src/components/volatileFilesystem.c
+++ b/src/components/volatileFilesystem.c
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #include "../neonucleus.h"
 
-// TODO: finish
-
 // Data structures
 
 typedef struct nn_vfnode {
@@ -556,7 +554,39 @@ nn_size_t nn_vfs_seek(nn_vfilesystem *fs, nn_vfhandle *handle, const char *whenc
     return handle->position;
 }
 
-// main funciton
+typedef struct nn_vfilesystemImage {
+	nn_vfilesystemImageNode *nodes;
+	nn_size_t ptr;
+} nn_vfilesystemImage;
+
+static nn_vfilesystemImageNode nni_vfsimg_nextNode(nn_vfilesystemImage *stream) {
+	nn_vfilesystemImageNode node = stream->nodes[stream->ptr];
+	stream->ptr++;
+	return node;
+}
+
+static nn_vfnode *nni_vfsimg_parseNode(nn_vfilesystem *fs, nn_vfilesystemImage *stream) {
+	// TODO: make this handle OOMs
+	nn_vfilesystemImageNode node = nni_vfsimg_nextNode(stream);
+	if(node.data == NULL) {
+		// directory!!!!!
+		nn_vfnode *dir = nn_vf_allocDirectory(fs, node.name);
+		dir->len = node.len;
+		for(int i = 0; i < node.len; i++) {
+			nn_vfnode *entry = nni_vfsimg_parseNode(fs, stream);
+			dir->entries[i] = entry;
+		}
+		return dir;
+	}
+	// file!!!!!
+	nn_vfnode *file = nn_vf_allocFile(fs, node.name);
+	nn_vf_ensureFileCapacity(file, node.len);
+	file->len = node.len;
+	nn_memcpy(file->data, node.data, node.len);
+	return file;
+}
+
+// constructor
 
 nn_filesystem *nn_volatileFilesystem(nn_Context *context, nn_vfilesystemOptions opts, nn_filesystemControl control) {
     // TODO: handle OOM
@@ -567,6 +597,20 @@ nn_filesystem *nn_volatileFilesystem(nn_Context *context, nn_vfilesystemOptions
     fs->birthday = time;
     fs->opts = opts;
     fs->root = nn_vf_allocDirectory(fs, "/");
+
+	if(opts.image != NULL) {
+		nn_vfilesystemImage stream = {
+			.nodes = opts.image,
+			.ptr = 0,
+		};
+		// we got supplied an image, shit
+		fs->root->len = opts.rootEntriesInImage;
+		for(int i = 0; i < opts.rootEntriesInImage; i++) {
+			nn_vfnode *entry = nni_vfsimg_parseNode(fs, &stream);
+			fs->root->entries[i] = entry;
+		}
+	}
+
     nn_filesystemTable table = {
         .userdata = fs,
         .deinit = (void *)nn_vfs_deinit,
diff --git a/src/emulator.c b/src/emulator.c
index 3e8e785..3ab7df2 100644
--- a/src/emulator.c
+++ b/src/emulator.c
@@ -671,6 +671,14 @@ int main() {
     nn_filesystem *genericFS = nn_newFilesystem(&ctx, genericFSTable, ne_fs_ctrl);
     nn_addFileSystem(computer, NULL, 1, genericFS);
 
+	nn_vfilesystemImageNode tmpfsImg[] = {
+		(nn_vfilesystemImageNode) {
+			.name = "testScript.lua",
+			.data = "print('Hello, world!')",
+			.len = nn_strlen("print('Hello, world!')"),
+		},
+	};
+
     nn_vfilesystemOptions tmpfsOpts = {
         .isReadOnly = false,
         .capacity = 64*1024,
@@ -678,6 +686,8 @@ int main() {
         .labelLen = 5,
         .creationTime = 0, // we are at the start of time
         .maxDirEntries = 64,
+		.image = tmpfsImg,
+		.rootEntriesInImage = 1,
     };
     
     nn_filesystem *tmpFS = nn_volatileFilesystem(&ctx, tmpfsOpts, ne_fs_ctrl);
diff --git a/src/neonucleus.h b/src/neonucleus.h
index d247368..28cb79b 100644
--- a/src/neonucleus.h
+++ b/src/neonucleus.h
@@ -727,6 +727,14 @@ typedef struct nn_filesystemTable {
 
 typedef struct nn_filesystem nn_filesystem;
 
+typedef struct nn_vfilesystemImageNode {
+	const char *name;
+	// if NULL, the node is a directory
+	const char *data;
+	// if it is a directory, this is the amount of entries encoded afterwards
+	nn_size_t len;
+} nn_vfilesystemImageNode;
+
 typedef struct nn_vfilesystemOptions {
     // used to compute lastModified
     nn_size_t creationTime;
@@ -735,6 +743,9 @@ typedef struct nn_vfilesystemOptions {
     nn_bool_t isReadOnly;
     char label[NN_LABEL_SIZE];
     nn_size_t labelLen;
+	// loading the files into the tmpfs
+	nn_vfilesystemImageNode *image;
+	nn_size_t rootEntriesInImage;
 } nn_vfilesystemOptions;
 
 nn_filesystem *nn_newFilesystem(nn_Context *context, nn_filesystemTable table, nn_filesystemControl control);