:warning: Running recent Linux guests on M1 macOS needs Homebrew's QEMU 6.2.0_1 or later. Run brew upgrade to upgrade QEMU. Intel macOS users are NOT affected by this issue. For the further information, see https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/pull/734 and https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/96743 .

Changes

• nerdctl:

  • Update to v0.17.1 (#694)
  • Automatically upgrade existing installation of containerd/nerdctl inside the guest (#694)
  • Use fuse-overlayfs only when kernel < 5.13, and use real overlayfs on kernel >= 5.13. Instances created with an old release of Lima will continue to use fuse-overlayfs. (#695)

• limactl CLI:

  • Support limactl start template://TEMPLATE (#674), e.g., limactl start --name=default template://docker. The template can be also chosen from TUI.

$ limactl start
? Creating an instance "default"  [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
  Proceed with the current configuration
  Open an editor to review or modify the current configuration
> Choose another example (docker, podman, archlinux, fedora, ...)
  Exit

? Choose an example  [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
> almalinux
  alpine
  archlinux
  debian
  default
  docker
  faasd
...

• Examples:
  • Add buildkit.yaml (#653, thanks to @developer-guy)
  • Add oraclelinux.yaml (#700, thanks to @chrisperelstein)

Other changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/18?closed=1 Thanks to @chrisperelstein @developer-guy @deviantintegral @jandubois @jwhb @samuelkarp

Homebrew

brew install lima https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/dfb16b662187d68a8c1b20b4f8f998d54601ae80

Usage

[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/1967583891

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is a10848bd3bfa41b395ca54473bc82fe59081cc4e0b11f7b6c7c35a18ba633374 .