v2.3.0-beta.1

Highlights:

• 🪟Experimentally support HCS driver on Windows hosts
• 🍎Attach host block devices to VZ guests
• 🐧lima-privileged-net helper for Linux hosts (WIP)

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)

• QEMU:

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

• Networking:

  • Add the lima-privileged-net helper for Linux hosts (WIP) (#5483 #5484, thanks to @unsuman)

• 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:

  • Support stopping multiple instances with limactl stop (#5369, thanks to @MEETNANDA8107)
  • limactl autostart enable: add --keep-alive (#5086, thanks to @resker)

• Templates:

  • 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)
  • 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 @MEETNANDA8107 @Nashit-h @PhysicistJohn @SABITHSAHEB @Sarthak-Shreshtha01 @afbjorklund @aka-rider @alexandear @arixmkii @chrisanderton @ekalinin @iamstarkov @jandubois @kolyshkin @mie313 @mvanhorn @pirate @ravi-arnan @resker @sharanrajt @somaz94 @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/37125578567

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 1d26eb8b749ccc0295fa377f16d154042e4b2129ef8228a7798ac1e4b87cee94 .

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Release manager: @AkihiroSuda