Lima v2.1.0-rc.1

v2.1.0-rc.1Pre-releasemacOSLinux
Added 8
  • Support macOS guests with limactl start template:macos
  • Support FreeBSD guests with limactl start template:freebsd
  • Add limactl watch command
  • Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files
  • Add limactl (create|edit|start) --nested-virt as an alias for --set '.nestedVirtualization = true'
  • Support nested virtualization in krunkit
  • Add host-to-guest time synchronization
  • Restore debian-11 template
Changed 5
  • Guest home directory changed from /home/${USER}.linux to /home/${USER}.guest with old path symlinked for compatibility
  • Use QEMU by default for non-native architectures
  • Reduce guestagent binary footprint from 14M to 6.1M
  • Consolidate basedisk and diffdisk into a single disk file for efficiency
  • k3s template now supports creating multi-node clusters

🎉 Highlights:

Changes

  • Guest OS support:

    • Experimentally support macOS guests (#4595)
    • Experimentally support FreeBSD guests (#4627)

  • limactl CLI:

    • Add limactl watch command (#4489, thanks to @IrvingMg)
    • Add limactl shell --sync to prevent AI agents from breaking the host files (#4429, thanks to @unsuman)
    • Add limactl (create|edit|start) --nested-virt as an alias for --set '.nestedVirtualization = true' (#4663)

  • Guest home directory:

    • The guest home directory is changed from /home/${USER}.linux to /home/${USER}.guest (#4578). For compatibility, the old path is symlinked to the new one.

  • QEMU:

    • Use QEMU by default for non-native architectures (#4725)

  • krunkit:

    • Support nested virtualization (#4658, thanks to @abiosoft)

  • Hostagent:

    • Add host-to-guest time synchronization (#4527, thanks to @mfenderov)

  • Guestagent:

    • Reduce binary footprint (14M -> 6.1M) (#4120, #4536)

  • Internal file structure:

    • basedisk and diffdisk are consolidated into a single disk file for efficiency (#4587, thanks to @jandubois). No impact is expected for end users. An instance created with Lima v2.0 or v1.x should continue to boot with Lima v2.1 (but not vice versa).

  • Templates:

    • k3s: support creating multi-node clusters (#4505, thanks to @afbjorklund)
    • Restore debian-11 (#4574, thanks to @olamilekan000)

  • Project:

    • MAINTAINERS: promote Norio Nomura (@norio-nomura) to a Committer (#4511)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/62?closed=1 @Harry-kp @IrvingMg @TatsuyaHayashino @abiosoft @afbjorklund @alexandear @arixmkii @bmwiedemann @hekki @jandubois @majiayu000 @mfenderov @ningmingxiao @norio-nomura @olamilekan000 @tharunn0 @tushar1977 @unsuman

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/23115903481

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 90f5f673101d51e1f1b4c219d883a34b389cea5fb3f0d65b4b2944b96def4015 .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

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