How to disable home directory sharing by default?

[metachris]

I want to disable the default home directory sharing, as it's a security risk for many use-cases. What would also work is reliably sharing a custom directory to always be bound to /Users/{{.User}} inside the VM, and it should work across restarts.

I couldn't find a way to do this. I tried using .lima/_config/default.yaml as well as override.yaml but they still seem to get overwritten with the default home mount anyway, at least after restart.

Is there a way to remove or customize the default home directory sharing?

[metachris]

I noticed I can use an override such as this in override.yaml:

mounts:
- location: "~/VM-Shared/Home"
  mountPoint: "/Users/{{.User}}"
  writable: true

It works on initial start, but not anymore on restarts, and it's still mounting both (just the override one after the default one). I would like to actually disable the default mount:

Initial start:

$ mount | grep /Users
mount2 on /Users/metachris type virtiofs (ro,relatime)
mount4 on /Users/metachris type virtiofs (rw,relatime)

After restart:

$ mount | grep /Users
mount2 on /Users/metachris type virtiofs (ro,relatime)

[metachris]

The best way I found so far is to start an instance based on a raw yaml from the _images folder, like this:

limactl start --name test -y https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lima-vm/lima/refs/heads/master/templates/_images/ubuntu-25.10.yaml

Using a .lima/_config/default.yaml file like this:

mounts:
- location: "~/VM-Shared"
  mountPoint: "/Users/{{.User}}"
  writable: true