v2.2.0

[AkihiroSuda]

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 (Support Windows server 2025 guest #5138, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313)
  • Experimentally support Windows 11 guests (Support Windows 11 x86-64 #5164 Windows 11 ARM64 support #5185 Improve Windows 11 performance #5244, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313)

• Linux guest support:

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

• Windows host support:

  • Change the default VM driver from wsl2 to qemu (Windows: change the default VM driver from wsl2 to qemu for better compatibility #4788)
  • Remove dependency on cygpath.exe (Windows: detect the SSH toolchain and convert paths for native OpenSSH #5205, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313 with assistance from @jandubois)

• macOS host support:

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

• VM driver infrastructure:

  • Update API (Fix: external driver transport irregularities #4877, thanks to @unsuman)

• QEMU:

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

• VZ:

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

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl screenshot (feat(screenshot): add limactl screenshot command for VZ GUI VMs #5098, thanks to @trodemaster)
  • Accept limactl edit flags in limactl restart (restart: accept editflags to modify configuration before restarting #5076, thanks to @itsme-ranger)
  • Accept --shell flag in limactl (create|edit|start) (feat(cli): add --shell flag #5194, thanks to @unsuman)

• Networking:

  • Limit socket_vmnet access from %everyone to the %admin group (networks: avoid %everyone in default sudoers #5190, thanks to @ekalinin)

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v2.3.4 to v2.3.5 (nerdctl: update from v2.3.4 to v2.3.5 #5297)

• Templates:

  • almalinux-kitten: Move to experimental/ (templates: move almalinux-kitten to experimental/ #4736)
  • alpine: Support --plain (alpine: support --plain mode #3057)
  • debian: Support --image-variant=nocloud (feat(template): support template-less image variant selection #5159, thanks to @Nachiket-Roy)
  • fedora: support RISC-V 64 (templates: fedora-44: support riscv64 #5201)
  • ubuntu: Support --image-variant=minimal (feat(template): support template-less image variant selection #5159, thanks to @Nachiket-Roy)
  • k8s: Support version and registry parameters (Add parameters for Kubernetes installation #4872 Add parameter for Kubernetes registry #5200, thanks to @afbjorklund)
  • experimental/ubuntu-next: point to ubuntu-26.10 (templates: 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 @Austin1serb @Nachiket-Roy @Nashit-h @SABITHSAHEB @SAY-5 @afbjorklund @arimu1 @arixmkii @bitalizer @ciderale @coulof @ekalinin @gaurav0107 @itsme-ranger @jandubois @kavirakesh14 @loncharles @mie313 @mvanhorn @opjt @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/29840916918

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 7da5160ee9b22de8eec4222e581334ee6326881e20d5aa8eb29b22f897312a5f .

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

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This discussion was created from the release v2.2.0.