Lima

Changes

• YAML: support inheritance (#3072, thanks to @jandubois)
• QEMU:
  • Support DragonflyBSD hosts (#3356, thanks to @tuxillo)
  • Support S390X guests (#3319)
• WSL2: lots of improvements (several PRs, thanks to @arixmkii)
• Port forwarding: enable faster gRPC implementation by default (#3046)
• limactl CLI:
  • Add --yes flag as an alias of --tty=false (#3342, thanks to @suryaaprakassh)
• Rootless Containers:
  • Allow UID >= 524288 (#3435)
• Templat

Changes

• YAML: support inheritance (#3072, thanks to @jandubois)
• QEMU:
  • Support DragonflyBSD hosts (#3356, thanks to @tuxillo)
  • Support S390X guests (#3319)
• WSL2: lots of improvements (several PRs, thanks to @arixmkii)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/26?closed=1
Thanks to @arixmkii @jandubois @kairveeehh @nirs @tatucosmin @tuxillo @unsuman

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start

QEMU:

• Revert "Restrict pessimization of M4 arch to macOS 15.2"; upgrade Cortex-A72 to Cortex-A76 (#3227)

YAML:

• Support customizing user shell (#3207, thanks to @afbjorklund)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/56?closed=1

Thanks to @afbjorklund @alexandear @kairveeehh

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[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/13297347764

Changes

• limactl CLI:
  • Fix start command: return error early when instance already exists (#3144, thanks to @jandubois)
• DNS:
  • Fix a regression containers/gvisor-tap-vsock#466 (#3189)
• QEMU:
  • Enable SME on macOS 15.3 running on M4 (#3197, #3203, thanks to @jandubois)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/55?closed=1
Thanks to @alexandear @arixmkii @jandubois @msgilligan @olamilekan000 @rfay @s1gnate-sync

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start

Changes

• network:
  • Use MAC address as dhcpd identifier (#3123, thanks to @nirs)
  • Updated gvisor-tap-vsock to v0.8.2 to fix a DNS issue (#3133)
• YAML:
  • Un-deprecate non-strict YAML (#3104, thanks to @jandubois)
• nerdctl:
  • Updated from v2.0.1 to v2.0.3 (#3134)
• Templates:
  • Updated to the latest revisions (#3134)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/54?closed=1
Thanks to @afbjorklund @alexandear @jandubois @nirs @olamilekan000 @paulinek13

Usage

[mac

Changes

• QEMU:
  • Support Apple M4 (#3032)
• gRPC port forwarder:
  • Improvements on stability (#2971, #2985, etc. thanks to @nirs @balajiv113)
• Templates:
  • archlinux: allow 9p again (#3048)
  • centos-stream-10: New template (#3023, #3047, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • opensuse: disable virtiofs due to the lack of the kernel module in the default installation (#3056)
  • Updated to the latest revisions (#3043)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/52?closed=1
Thanks to @PascalBourdier @afbjorklund

Changes

• DNS:

  • Fixed the host resolver regression in v1.0.0 #2939 (#2964)

• limactl create:

  • Fixed races during parallel downloads (#2903, thanks to @nirs)
  • Optimized qcow2-to-raw conversion for vz mode (#2933, thanks to @nirs)

• limactl start-at-login:

  • Fixed the support for Linux hosts (systemd) (#2943, thanks to @kachick)

• nerdctl:

  • Updated to v2.0.1 (#2966)

• Templates:

  • Updated to the latest revisions (#2936 #2953, thanks to @tcooper)

• Web site:

Reverted the default port forwarder from gRPC to SSH for the stability reason (#2864).
This reversion fixes several regressions related to docker run -p in Lima v1.0.0 (#2859).

Although the gRPC forwarder is faster and has an advanced feature (UDP support), it turned out to be still immature.
Set LIMA_SSH_PORT_FORWARDER=false to opt-in to the gRPC forwarder.
See https://lima-vm.io/docs/config/port/.

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/50?closed=1
Thanks to @alexandear @jandubois @norio-nomura

Usage

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

With the support from 110+ contributors in 3+ years, the Lima project has finally reached v1.0. 🎉

This release introduces several breaking changes, such as switching the default machine driver from QEMU to VZ for better filesystem performance.

The limactl CLI is designed to print hints when the user hits those breaking changes.
e.g., limactl create template://experimental/vz now fails with a hint that suggests using limactl create --vm-type=vz template://default instead.

🔴 = Major breaking changes
🟡 = Minor breaking changes

• VZ:

  • Graduate VZ machine driver from experimental (#2758)
  • 🔴 Use VZ by default for new instances on macOS >= 13.5 (#1951)
  • Support nested virtualization on M3 (#2530, thanks to @abiosoft

With the support from 110+ contributors in 3+ years, the Lima project has finally reached v1.0 (Pre-release). 🎉

This release introduces several breaking changes, such as switching the default machine driver from QEMU to VZ for better filesystem performance.

The limactl CLI is designed to print hints when the user hits those breaking changes.
e.g., limactl create template://experimental/vz now fails with a hint that suggests using limactl create --vm-type=vz template://default instead.

🔴 = Major breaking changes
🟡 = Minor breaking changes

• VZ:

  • Graduate VZ machine driver from experimental (#2758)
  • 🔴 Use VZ by default for

Changes

• vz:
  • Use VZ by default for new instances on macOS >= 13.5 (#1951)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/47?closed=1

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[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/10628063124

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 69bbfccf7e046e03edd5d3facd8