lima-vm / lima
Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
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Lima: Linux Machines
Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding (similar to WSL2).
The original goal of Lima was to promote containerd including nerdctl (contaiNERD ctl) to Mac users, but Lima can be used for non-container applications as well.
Lima also supports other container engines (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, etc.) and non-macOS hosts (Linux, NetBSD, etc.).
Getting started
Set up (Homebrew):
brew install lima
limactl start
To run Linux commands:
lima uname -a
To run containers with containerd:
lima nerdctl run --rm hello-world
To run containers with Docker:
limactl start template:docker
export DOCKER_HOST=$(limactl list docker --format 'unix://{{.Dir}}/sock/docker.sock')
docker run --rm hello-world
To run containers with Kubernetes:
limactl start template:k8s
export KUBECONFIG=$(limactl list k8s --format 'unix://{{.Dir}}/copied-from-guest/kubeconfig.yaml')
kubectl apply -f ...
See https://lima-vm.io/docs/ for the further information.
Contributing
We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details on:
- Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO): All commits must be signed off with
git commit -s - Code licensing and pull request guidelines
- Testing requirements
Community
Adopters
Container environments:
- Rancher Desktop: Kubernetes and container management to the desktop
- Colima: Docker (and Kubernetes) on macOS with minimal setup
- Finch: Finch is a command line client for local container development
- Podman Desktop: Podman Desktop GUI has a plug-in for Lima virtual machines
GUI:
- Lima xbar plugin: xbar plugin to start/stop VMs from the menu bar and see their running status.
- lima-gui: Qt GUI for Lima
Communication channels
<!-- Duplicated from https://lima-vm.io/docs/community/ -->- GitHub Discussions
#limachannel in the CNCF Slack- New account: https://slack.cncf.io/
- Login: https://cloud-native.slack.com/
- Zoom meetings (tentatively monthly)
- Meeting notes & agenda proposals: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/discussions/categories/meetings
- Calendar: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/lima
Social media accounts
Follow us for project updates, release announcements, and community news:
Code of Conduct
Lima follows the CNCF Code of Conduct.
We are a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubating project.
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