lima-vm/lima v2.3.0-rc.0

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Highlights:

• 🪟Experimentally support HCS driver for eliminating QEMU dependency (Windows hosts)
• 🍎Attach host block devices to VZ guests (macOS hosts)
• 🐧Experimentally support lima:shared, lima:host, and lima:bridged networks (Linux hosts)
• 🖥️limactl menu: a menu-based user interface

Changes

• Windows host support:

  • Experimentally support HCS driver (#5449 #5514, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313, and @unsuman)
  • Support native Windows OpenSSH (#5298 #5299 #5300 #5337, thanks to @jandubois)
  • Automatically append common tool directories (e.g., QEMU) to PATH (#5348, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313)

• Windows guest support:

  • Support provision (#5263, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313)

• macOS guest support:

  • Add osOpts.darwin.suppressFirstLoginSetup to skip the first-login Setup Assistant (#5336, thanks to @trodemaster)

• VZ:

  • Support attaching host block devices (limactl start --block-device) (#5117, thanks to @pirate)
  • Add audio.microphone to attach a capture stream (#5462, thanks to @iamstarkov)
  • Add networkOpts.hostLoopback to block guest access to the host's loopback services (#5581, thanks to @ranacseruet)

• QEMU:

  • Support nestedVirtualization with HVF (QEMU >= 11.1) (#5443, thanks to @sharanrajt)
  • Implement limactl screenshot (#5478, thanks to @afbjorklund)

• Networking:

  • Experimentally support lima:shared, lima:host, and lima:bridged networks on Linux hosts, via the new lima-privileged-net helper (#5483 #5484 #5485 #5486 #5513 #5669, thanks to @unsuman)

• Port forwarding:

  • Forward Unix sockets over gRPC instead of SSH (#5653, thanks to @KayleMaster)

• YAML:

  • Add archVariant (--arch-variant) for selecting x86-64-v2/v3 images (#5335, thanks to @ekalinin)
  • additionalDisks: support custom mountPoint and optional mounting (#5198, thanks to @ekalinin)
  • copyToHost: add skipIfMissing (#5183, thanks to @afbjorklund)

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl menu, a TUI for managing instances (#5330 #5629 #5668 ..., thanks to @Soumya-codr et al.)
    • limactl without arguments now opens the menu on an interactive terminal
  • Support stopping multiple instances with limactl stop (#5369, thanks to @MEETNANDA8107)
  • limactl autostart enable: add --keep-alive (#5086, thanks to @resker)
  • limactl shell --sync: add --sync-exclude and support the .limasyncignore file (#4917, thanks to @peschmae)
  • Show the boot progress with an (N/total) counter (#4902 #5602, thanks to @mn-ram and @saswatsam786)

• MCP:

  • Implement the replace tool for targeted file edits (#5540, thanks to @bonifaido)

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v2.4.1 to v2.4.2 (#5703)

• Templates:

  • Update the default Ubuntu to 26.10 (#5657)
  • k8s: Add a parameter for apt-proxy (#5251, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • k8s: Allow installing on the minimal image variant (#5385, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • k8s: Pin Kubernetes version to 1.37 (#5463, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • k8s: Accept an https:// URL when joining a node (#5559, thanks to @Sarthak-Shreshtha01)
  • k3s: Add parameters for apt-proxy and registry (#5251, #5257 #5377, thanks to @afbjorklund)

• Release artifacts:

  • Add SBOM artifacts (#5220, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • Add the JSON schema of lima.yaml (#5339 #5380, thanks to @afbjorklund)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/74?closed=1

Thanks to @ChengyuZhu6 @Glitch-On @HMM-210 @KayleMaster @MEETNANDA8107 @Nashit-h @PhysicistJohn @QIU-Guanzong @SABITHSAHEB @Sarthak-Shreshtha01 @SethFalco @ShauryaBisht @Sonichigo @Soumya-codr @afbjorklund @aka-rider @albdv @alexandear @arixmkii @bcollard @bonifaido @chrisanderton @dawudkhan @deltron-fr @ekalinin @iamstarkov @jandubois @kolyshkin @mie313 @mn-ram @mvanhorn @nightcityblade @olamilekan000 @peschmae @pirate @ranacseruet @ravi-arnan @resker @saswatsam786 @sharanrajt @somaz94 @thc1006 @trodemaster @ump45nose @unsuman @youdie006

Usage

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

$ 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/41083248166

The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is in the .sbom.tar.gz artifact.
It does not cover software that is downloaded during Lima operation, such as nerdctl-full.tar.gz or the cloud images.

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is fa221e42052e0ddc0b36c5c13d4c8a07181a4555b401350c756deae4e4d5f392 .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda