Lima v2.2.0-rc.0

Highlights:

• 🪟Experimentally support Windows server 2025 guests
• 🪟Experimentally support Windows 11 guests
• 🐧Experimentally allow opting out from password-less sudo

Changes

• Windows guest support:

  • Experimentally support Windows server 2025 guests (#5138, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313)
  • Experimentally support Windows 11 guests (#5164 #5185 #5244, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313)

• Linux guest support:

  • Experimentally allow opting out from password-less sudo (#5109 etc., thanks to @Aneesh-Hegde)

• Windows host support:

  • Change the default VM driver from wsl2 to qemu (#4788)

• macOS host support:

  • Add LaunchDaemon support for headless macOS servers (#4984, thanks to @resker)

• VM driver infrastructure:

  • Update API (#4877, thanks to @unsuman)

• QEMU:

  • Implement TPM emulation (#5148, thanks to @mie313)

• VZ:

  • Implement virtio-sound interface (#5016, thanks to @Aneesh-Hegde)

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl screenshot (#5098, thanks to @trodemaster)
  • Accept limactl edit flags in limactl restart (#5076, thanks to @itsme-ranger)
  • Accept --shell flag in limactl (create|edit|start) (#5194, thanks to @unsuman)

• Networking:

  • Limit socket_vmnet access from %everyone to the %admin group (#5190, thanks to @ekalinin)

• Templates:

  • almalinux-kitten: Move to experimental/ (#4736)
  • alpine: Support --plain (#3057)
  • debian: Support --image-variant=nocloud (#5159, thanks to @Nachiket-Roy)
  • fedora: support RISC-V 64 (#5201)
  • ubuntu: Support --image-variant=minimal (#5159, thanks to @Nachiket-Roy)
  • k8s: Support version and registry parameters (#4872 #5200, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • experimental/ubuntu-next: point to ubuntu-26.10 (#5214)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/70?closed=1 Thanks to @Aneesh-Hegde @Nachiket-Roy @SABITHSAHEB @afbjorklund @arixmkii @bitalizer @ciderale @coulof @ekalinin @gaurav0107 @itsme-ranger @jandubois @kavirakesh14 @loncharles @mie313 @pirate @resker @trodemaster @unsuman

Usage

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

$ lima uname
Linux

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The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions. The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/29470510152

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 6c4fc48f1b415461272bac7082c8c6564f714638533e9e58b9e9f0846f51376b .

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda