Lima

This release adds the support for limactl start-at-login and inotify.

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl start-at-login INSTANCE command (#2151, thanks to @roman-kiselenko)

• Mounts:

  • Support for inotify: limactl start --mount-inotify (#1913, thanks to @balajiv113)

• YAML:

  • Allow {{.Name}} in provision scripts (#2179)

• nerdctl:

  • Update to v1.7.4 → v1.7.5 (#2251)

• Templates:

  • Alpine: demote from Tier 1 to Tier 2 (#2236)
  • Update Ubuntu, Arch Linux, CentOS Stream, and Debian to the latest revi

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl start-at-login INSTANCE command (#2151, thanks to @roman-kiselenko)

• Mounts:

  • Support for inotify: limactl start --mount-inotify (#1913, thanks to @balajiv113)

• YAML:

  • Allow {{.Name}} in provision scripts (#2179)

• Templates:

  • Alpine: demote from Tier 1 to Tier 2 (#2236)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/43?closed=1
Thanks to @afbjorklund @alexandear

Changes

• alpine: avoid wiping out writable host mounts under /home, etc (#2244)

Prior to Lima v0.202, a host directory could be wiped out when all the following conditions are met:

• The directory is mounted to Lima via virtiofs or 9p (reverse-sshfs is not affected)
• The mount is writable
• The mount point in the guest is under one of: /etc /home /root /usr/local /var/lib
• The guest OS is Alpine Linux

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.
[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is a

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • Improve readability of limactl --help (#2167, thanks to @ayushgml)

• QEMU:

  • Unfork EDK2 (#2170). Now QEMU instances running on ARM Mac need QEMU >= 8.2.1 or QEMU < 8.2.0.

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v1.7.2 to v1.7.3 (#2172)
    • Contains runc v1.1.2 (fixes CVE-2024-21626) and BuildKit v0.12.5 (CVE-2024-23650, CVE-2024-23651, CVE-2024-23652, CVE-2024-23653)

• Templates:

  • Update Ubuntu and CentOS Stream to the latest revision (#2172)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/miles

This release adds the support for propagating the timezone from the host setting.
This release also fixes incompatibility with Go 1.22 (ETA: February 2024).

Changes

• Misc:

  • Set guest timezone from host setting (#2097)
  • Support Go 1.22 (#2137)
  • Store lima-version file in the instance directory (#2107, thanks to @jandubois)

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl start --foreground for better support of launchd (#2146, thanks to @norio-nomura)

• YAML:

  • Add upgradePackages: <bool> to upgrade the packages on boot (#2119, thanks to @afbjorklund)

• QEMU:

This release adds the support for QEMU v8.2.0 (ETA: Dec 19) and Apple M3.

Changes

• QEMU:

  • Support QEMU v8.2.0 by bumping up edk2-aarch64-code.fd (#2061, #2084).
    As a side-effect, this is expected to fix an incompatibility with Apple M3 as well (#1996).

• lima-guestagent:

  • Add logging for Alpine (#2065, thanks to @jandubois)

• Boot scripts:

  • Only terminate user connections when the environment changes (#2048, thanks to @mhio)

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v1.7.1 to v1.7.2 (#2063)

• Templates:

  • Arch Linux: update to 20231215.200192 (#20

This release fixes the disk image corruption issue with --vm-type=vz on ARM Mac (#2026)

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl disk resize command (#2034, thanks to @vasileknik76)

• VZ:

  • Fix the disk image corruption issue on ARM Mac (#2026, thanks to @wpiekutowski for providing the hint)

• QEMU:

  • Skip checking the qemu binary signature on macOS 11 and older (#1981, thanks to @jandubois)

• Hostagent (affects port forwarding, reverse sshfs, etc.)

  • Increase the limit on the number of the file descriptors (#2015, thanks to @vasileknik76)

Highlights:

• wsl2 driver (experimental)
• limactl create --plain to create "plain" instances (no mounts, port forwarding, containerd, etc.)
• Significant updates on the website (https://lima-vm.io/)

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • Move --set, --network, and --video out of experimental (#1852)
  • Make --tty to be a global flag (#1864)
  • Add limactl protect <INSTANCE> to prohibit accidental removal (#1873)
  • Deprecate limactl show-ssh in favor of ssh -F ... (#1811)

• YAML:

  • Add "plain" mode (disables mounts, port forwarding, con

v0.18.0-beta.0

(Changes to be documented)

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.
[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/6450110959

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 9eff4d6ad78985452c456050b49237ad774be38969b11820b9a04f041aa30e01 .

On macOS hosts, Lima now asks the user to sign the QEMU binary with the com.apple.security.hypervisor entitlement if the binary is not properly signed:

$ limactl start
INFO[0000] Using the existing instance "default"        
WARN[0000] QEMU binary "/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64" is not properly signed with the "com.apple.security.hypervisor" entitlement  error="failed to run [codesign --verify /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64]: exit status 1 (out=\"/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: invalid signature (code or signature have been modified)\\nIn architecture: x86_64\\n\")"
? Try to sign "/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64" with the "com.apple.security.hypervisor" entitlement? (Y/n)
...

Choose Y to sign the binary.

This signing is usually no