This release adds experimental support for 9P to replace reverse-sshfs mounts:

limactl start --name=default template://experimental/9p

Adoption of 9P is aimed at solving the issues around stability and security of reverse-sshfs. The default mount type is still reverse-sshfs, but the default is planned to be changed to 9P in Lima v1.0.

Changes

• Mounts:

  • Add experimental support for 9P to replace reverse-sshfs mounts (#726, #784, #787, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • SUpport setting sftpDriver: "openssh-sftp-server" to replace the "builtin" SFTP implementation (#804)

• QEMU:

  • Adjust the memory size to be <= 3GB on M1 to avoid host panic (#796)

• nerdctl:

  • Update nerdctl to v0.19.0 (#811). This release finally implements the long-wanted nerdctl cp.

• limactl CLI:

  • limactl shell: add --shell option (#779, #780, thanks to @jandubois)
  • limactl start: template://: support subdirectories (#805)

• YAML:

  • Support specifying .caCerts (#783, thanks to @nickpetrovic)

• Templates:

  • Update Ubuntu from 21.10 to 22.04 (#811)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/21?closed=1 Thanks to @afbjorklund @jandubois @nickpetrovic @tdaniely-dn @tweltz @xfoxfu

Homebrew

brew install lima https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/8bcf04872a089a0d9a7979d479b116ad8fb46d23

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/2218559760

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 6fc5182eb4498660ccb5a69e42af126ee665c72bb5e6c8a604c6cfa8257b490d .