This release adds an experimental support for Apple's Virtualization.framework aka vz.

limactl start template://experimental/vz

Pros:

• Supports faster filesystem sharing (virtiofs)
• (Coming soon) Supports faster emulation for running Linux/x86_64 ELF binaries on ARM (Rosetta 2)

Cons:

• No support for legacy BIOS
• The boot log is not available in serial.log
• The source code of Virtualization.framework does not seem available

Using Virtualization.framework with Lima needs macOS 13.0 or later.

Changes

(To be documented)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/29?closed=1 Thanks to @antoineco @balajiv113 @chrisx8 @jandubois @pendo324 @sam-berning

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/3477558407

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 4ab2fc1128fed870a4803f1c12ebdfc58357584dc25fa31ae2547efb72c13b37 .