lima-vm/lima v0.18.0

on GitHub

Highlights:

• wsl2 driver (experimental)
• limactl create --plain to create "plain" instances (no mounts, port forwarding, containerd, etc.)
• Significant updates on the website (https://lima-vm.io/)

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • Move --set, --network, and --video out of experimental (#1852)
  • Make --tty to be a global flag (#1864)
  • Add limactl protect <INSTANCE> to prohibit accidental removal (#1873)
  • Deprecate limactl show-ssh in favor of ssh -F ... (#1811)

• YAML:

  • Add "plain" mode (disables mounts, port forwarding, containerd, etc.) (#1840)

• WSL2:

  • Add an experimental wsl2 driver (#1721, #1883, etc. Thanks to @pendo324)

• user-v2 network:

  • Support for configurable network addresses (#1626, #1886, thanks to @balajiv113)
  • Support for deterministic IP (#1801, thanks to @balajiv113)

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v1.5.0 to v1.6.0
    →v1.6.1
    →v1.6.2 (#1820, #1911, #1912)

• Templates:

  • Alpine: update to alpine-lima v0.2.32 (#1869)
  • Arch Linux: update to 20231001.182377 (#1911)
  • CentOS Stream 8: update to 20231009.1 (#1911)
  • CentOS Stream 9: update to 20231009.1 (#1911)
  • Debian 11: update to 20231004-1523 (#1911)
  • Debian 12: update to 20231004-1523 (#1911)
  • Ubuntu 22.04: update to release-20231010 (#1911)
  • Ubuntu 23.04: update to 23.10 (#1911)
  • Add template://experimental/vnc with Xorg (#1901, thanks to @afbjorklund)

• Makefile:

  • Add make menuconfig (#1790, thanks to @afbjorklund)

• Web site:

  • https://lima-vm.io/ is now significantly updated (#1754, etc., thanks to @balajiv113)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/38?closed=1

Thanks to @AlexVCS @Victor-Chris @afbjorklund @balajiv113 @cdfmlr @jandubois @lobshunter @mairin @ningziwen @pendo324 @pszpetkowski @reishoku

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/6505177944

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 17404ec5525140772889134715239de966cd507b7d96a733f49bca40ee54e4ce .