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 (#2082)
  • CentOS Stream 8: update to 20231211.0 (#2063)
  • CentOS Stream 9: update to 20231211.0 (#2063)
  • Debian 12: update to 20231210-1591 (#2063)
  • Ubuntu 22.04: update to release-20231211 (#2063)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/40?closed=1 Thanks to @alexandear @jandubois @mhio

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/7249793232

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 89a52004f9b9abe9bf5a4f618e3383a05619c279a337945603285c52ac04948b .