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

limactl start template://experimental/vz

Pros:

• Supports faster filesystem sharing (virtiofs)
• 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) Since beta.0, the support for Rosetta was added.

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/29?closed=1 Thanks to @afbjorklund @antoineco @balajiv113 @chancez @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/3531739770

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is daebd6289f6327f70abd14616747e906244cd3f5665b5662e93242d9b6368732 .