v0.14.0

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

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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 .

v0.14.0-beta.1

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

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The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/3531739770

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v0.14.0-beta.0

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

---

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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 .

v0.13.0

Lima is now a CNCF Sandbox project 🎉

The slack is now moved to the #lima channel in the CNCF Slack.

• New account: https://slack.cncf.io/
• Login: https://cloud-native.slack.com/

Changes

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v0.23.0 to v1.0.0 (#1127)

• YAML:

  • Add "boot" provisioning script mode (#1094, thanks to @pendo324)

• QEMU:

  • Enable trimming QEMU disks (#1102, thanks to @chrisx8)
  • Change the default securityModel of 9p (experimental) from mapped-xattr to none, for supporting symlinks, sacrificing the support for chown (#1110)

• Templates:

  • alpine: update alpine-lima to 0.2.23, to include resize2fs and growpart (#1106, #1118, thanks to @jandubois)
  • archlinux: update update Arch Linux to 20221015.94571 (#1127)
  • debian: update Debian 11 to 20221020-1174 (#1127)
  • default, ubuntu, etc.: update Ubuntu from 22.04 to 22.10 (#1127)
  • experimental/{almalinux,centos-stream,oraclinux,rocky}-9: moved to almalinux, centos-stream, oraclelinux, rocky (#1120)
  • k8s: Update flannel from v0.19.1 to v0.20.0 (#1128, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • podman-rootful: add podman-rootful (#1052, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • singularity, experimental/apptainer: moved to apptainer (#1076, #1081, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • ubuntu-lts: update Ubuntu 22.04 to release-20221018 (#1127)

• Project:

  • Lima is now a CNCF Sandbox project (#1061, #1064)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/28?closed=1
Thanks to @Nino-K @afbjorklund @chrisx8 @jandubois @pendo324 @saltbo @vmasutin

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/3322258374

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is b13864b41c85112c51f24f9de41f4a4d1d7c8b1f4b56da5630484bbdfeb0c1bd .

v0.12.0

This release adds support for socket_vmnet and deprecates vde_vmnet.

Mode	Shared (NAT)	Bridged
socket_vmnet	0.66 Gbps	1.23 Gbps
vde_vmnet	0.27 Gbps	0.31 Gbps

The next major release will be probably v1.0 🎉 , and the default mount driver will be changed from reverse-sshfs to 9p: #971 .
(EDIT: this will probably happen after the release of QEMU 7.2: #971 (comment))

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Changes

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v0.22.2 to v0.23.0. Features nerdctl compose run, etc. (#1047)

• Network:

  • Support socket_vmnet; deprecate vde_vmnet (#851)

• YAML:

  • Deprecate non-strict YAML (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/1045)


• Templates:

  • alpine: update alpine-lima to v0.2.21 (#1047)
  • archlinux: update Arch Linux to v20220901.79699 (#1047)
  • debian: update Debian 11 to release 20220816-1109 (#1047)
  • default, ubuntu, ...: Update Ubuntu 22.04 to release 20220902 (#1047)
  • docker-rootful: Add docker-rootful (#1025)
  • k8s: Bug fixes (#1035, #1037, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • experimental/opensuse-tumbleweed: Support aarch64 (#1014, thanks to @replicajune)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/27?closed=1
Thanks to @afbjorklund @replicajune

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/3040193685

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 5f7accbeca07867c51b024f377177d64aef9fb5ead7f1260d62da60374e030da .

v0.11.3

Changes

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v0.22.0 to v0.22.2 (#1006).
    The v0.22.1 release finally implements nerdctl system prune (with --all).
    Also fixes an issue that is related to logging in to Docker Hub via Rancher Desktop (rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop#2553).

• Templates:

  • alpine: update alpine-lima to v0.2.20 (#1006)
  • archlinux: update Arch Linux to v20220801.71902 (#1006)
  • experimental/oraclelinux-9: Add experimental/oraclelinux-9 (Oracle Linux 9.0) (#1000)
  • experimental/opensuse-tumbleweed: Add experimental/opensuse-tumbleweed (openSUSE Tumbleweed) (#1005)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/25?closed=1
Thanks to @afbjorklund @jandubois

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/2778508093

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 45f2deda96c72640df9deb3b8591a39f71c36e0eb1101931e3e4431c37c730f1 .

v0.11.2

Lima is now known to work on NetBSD hosts with NVMM.
Windows port is in progress too.

Changes

• nerdctl:

  • Update to v0.22.0. (#963)
    This release adds nerdctl (container|image|volume) prune commands.
    No support for nerdctl (network|system) prune yet.

• QEMU:

  • Add USB hub (#948, thanks to @aluedeke)

• Templates:

  • alpine: Update alpine-lima to v0.2.18 (#963)
  • archlinux:Update ArchLinux to v20220715.68480 (#963)
  • debian: Update Debian 11 to release 20220711-1073 (#963)
  • default, ubuntu, ...: Update Ubuntu 22.04 to release 20220712 (#963)
  • rocky: Update to Rocky Linux 8.6.20220702.0 (#942)
 - experimental/centos-stream-9: Update to 20220705 (#963)
  • experimental/rocky-9: Add experimental/rocky-9 (Rocky Linux 9.0) (#959)
  • apptainer: Update Apptainer to 1.0.3

• Misc:

  • Lima is now known to work on NetBSD hosts with NVMM (#913, #914, thanks to @iamleot)
  • Windows port is in progress (thanks to @afbjorklund)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/24?closed=1
Thanks to @Nino-K @afbjorklund @aluedeke @iamleot @jandubois @jkremser

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

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The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/2694869694

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 27396dc6a7636f94221875abd0be4b17f601edb7721cb30112a8735093f0fe77 .

v0.11.1

This release introduces an experimental support for AlmaLinux 9 and CentOS Stream 9.

Changes

• nerdctl:

  • Update nerdctl to v0.21.0. This releases fixes the regression of nerdctl compose up. (#910)

• YAML:

  • Add .[]mounts.mountPoint to support specifying a custom mount point (#867, thanks to @chancez)
  • Add .ssh.forwardX11 and .ssh.forwardX11Trusted to allow X11 forwarding (#877, thanks to @jordemort)

• limactl CLI:

  • Expand the instance message fields during inspection (#903, thanks to @jandubois)

• Templates

  • alpine: Update to alpine-lima v0.2.17 (Alpine Linux 3.16) (#910)
  • archlinux: Update to ArchLinux 20220615.61815 (#910)
  • centos-stream: Add centos-stream (CentOS Stream 8-20220125.1) (#901, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • opensuse: Update to openSUSE Leap 15.4 (#890)
  • oraclelinux: Update to Oracle Linux 8.6; support ARM (#865)
  • podman: Change the VM distro from Ubuntu 22.04 (Podman 3) to Fedora 36 (Podman 4) (#876, thanks to @dmage)
  • experimental/almalinux-9: Add experimental/almalinux-9 (AlmaLinux 9.0)(#904)
  • experimental/apptainer: Add experimental/apptainer (Apptainer 1.0.2 on Rocky Linux 8.5) (#887, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • experimental/centos-stream-9: Add experimental/centos-stream-9 (CentOS Stream 9-20220606.0) (#901, thanks to @afbjorklund)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/23?closed=1

Thanks to @afbjorklund @chancez @davebarkerxyz @dmage @jandubois @jordemort @nl6720 @nunix

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

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The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/2522953157

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 6b52aedb4eb30332e740ad834add7ee871c03fccc8427ffc9a7e10efce7c8222 .

v0.11.0

This release adds an experimental support for RISC-V (#827): limactl start template://experimental/riscv64

---

Changes

• QEMU:

  • Experimental support for RISC-V (#827): limactl start template://experimental/riscv64
  • Look for firmware in $HOME/.local/share/qemu (#820, thanks to @jcdickinson)

• Network:

  • Enable reverse forwarding of portForwards (#836, thanks to @afbjorklund)

• nerdctl:

  • Update nerdctl to v0.20.0 (#859).
    This release adds the nerdctl builder debug command for interactive debugging of Dockerfile.
    https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/blob/v0.20.0/docs/builder-debug.md

• Templates:

  • almalinux: Update to AlmaLinux 8.6 (#860)
  • alpine: Update to Alpine-Lima 0.2.13 (#860)
  • archlinux: Update to 20220515.56564 (#860)
  • fedora, singularity: Update to Fedora 36 (#854)
  • k8s: Support Kubernetes 1.24 (#846, 818, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • docker: Add the docker.lima wrapper, similar to the nerdctl.lima wrapper (#855, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • podman: Add the podman.lima wrapper, similar to the nerdctl.lima wrapper (#855, thanks to @afbjorklund)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/22?closed=1

Thanks to @afbjorklund @jandubois @jcdickinson

Homebrew

brew install lima
Homebrew/homebrew-core@e21a16e

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

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The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/2350148772

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is a10530d36673adc0952df64ffaf333ae573fc8cc658e66215fd940073290ec12 .

v0.10.0

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.

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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
Homebrew/homebrew-core@8bcf048

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

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