: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 nerdctl to v0.18.0, and configure BuildKit to use the containerd worker (#756). Now nerdctl build can consume local images in FROM ... lines of Dockerfile.

• limactl CLI:

  • Add factory-reset command (#757, thanks to @Junnplus)

• Network:

  • Treat AAAA queries as A queries when IPv6 is disabled (#738, thanks to @jandubois)

• Examples:

  • archlinux.yaml now supports aarch64 (ARM) architecture (#750, thanks to @mcginty)
  • Add deprecated/centos-7.yaml. This example is already deprecated on its birth. Users are suggest to use rocky.yaml or almalinux.yaml. (#720, thanks to @alisson276)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/20?closed=1 Thanks to @Junnplus @alisson276 @jandubois @mcginty

Homebrew

brew install lima https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/eeb646b9e232c7d98c81229b6ea8491ae1fc8ccf

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/2044479172

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 5acfb83e93363ee5b9085d0e90ba5a7923e00629a0bc25234758b428f6bb94dd .