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 revisions (#2248)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/43?closed=1 Thanks to @afbjorklund @alexandear @balajiv113 @blmhemu @jandubois @norio-nomura @pendo324 @roman-kiselenko @terev

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/8307250970

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 3a4fc483678ef5aea033a9d19b5e4db1ddc480f54d1a12afb257f255d72b5395 .