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. See also docs/vmtype.md.

Changes

• Virtualization.framework (VZ):

  • Support Virtualization.framework (#1147, etc., thanks to @balajiv113)
  • Support Rosetta for Linux (#1155, thanks to @chancez)
  • Support vzNAT networking (#1207)

• vmnet:

  • Support detecting Homebrew's socket_vmnet path (#1220)

• YAML:

  • Remove deprecated network and useHostResolver (#1186)

• limactl CLI:

  • Allow using $SSH as a custom SSH binary path (#1132, thanks to @antoineco)
  • Add limactl disk (create|delete|list) commands for attaching multiple disks to instances (#1065, thanks to @sam-berning)
  • Add limactl start --timeout=<TIMEOUT> for setting custom timeout (#1143, thanks to @antoineco)

• nerdctl:

  • Update to v1.1.0. Compose is significantly improved. (#1236)

• Templates: (#1159, #1194, #1215, #1236)

  • Alpine: update to 3.17.0
  • Arch Linux: update to 20221201.106936
  • Debian 11: update to 20221205-1220
  • EL derivatives: update to 8.7/9.1
  • Fedora: update to 37
  • Ubuntu 22.04: update to release-20221201
  • Ubuntu 22.10: update to release-20221201
  • openSUSE Tumbleweed: switch away from "JeOS" to "Minimal-VM"

• Misc:

  • Add Finch as an adopter of Lima (#1199, thanks to @estesp)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/29?closed=1 Thanks to @afbjorklund @antoineco @balajiv113 @chancez @chrisx8 @estesp @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/3676969854

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is adcc4b9c798aba356c5c3a5140a77edf8443b8df9e195d7ba89d976ef5074ed3 .