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…also simplifies linux VMs lima does, not colima (well it does because it's lima under the hood) https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by lloeki · 2026-10-12 · in Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

I just added this to Lima recently, hopefully the macOS container machines support it too: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/pull/4866

comment by nikisweeting · 2026-06-10 · in macOS Container Machines

…by the architecture. You may be interested in: - Lima - wsl2-like access to a virtual machine https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/README.md - vfkit - CLI creation and management of applehv VMs https://github.com/crc-org/vfkit -…

comment by thebiss · 2026-01-17 · in OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

Here's the github page - https://github.com/lima-vm/lima -- Happy Lima User

comment by bonsai_spool · 2025-10-15 · in Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac

…deterministic build environments on a Mac! I use it with Ansible to provision testing environments: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by bonsai_spool · 2025-10-15 · in M5 MacBook Pro

Neat, I've not tried https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by simonw · 2025-09-30 · in Designing agentic loops

…is what Lima is, which is the basis for Colima which runs on top with all the Docker runtime stuff https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

comment by drzaiusx11 · 2025-09-05 · in I ditched Docker for Podman

…the podman discussion FWIW lima (upon which COlima was built) ships with "boot me up a podman": < https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/v1.2.1/templates/podman... > and < https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/v1.2.1/templates/podman... > I…

comment by mdaniel · 2025-08-22 · in Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit

Is this close enough? https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by arzig · 2025-05-20 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

On the macOS side, https://github.com/lima-vm/lima is the closest equivalent to WSL. Parallels also has a commercial offering that does some nice GUI-level integration with both Windows and Linux VMs. My understanding is that these are…

comment by int_19h · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

I've had a really good time using https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by sorenbs · 2025-04-17 · in Development on Apple Silicon with UTM

…with UDP support! [0]. I'm hoping to be able to use it soon once it makes into a release. [0]: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/13e9cbcabc6a0a05ec389...

comment by saghul · 2024-09-20 · in Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

…all open source Apple hvf hypervisors. lima with vfkit or UTM are most promising ones for now: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/1957#issuecomment-182... , https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/pull/2026 ,…

comment by 5kg · 2024-06-26 · in Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements

Lima can launch Ubuntu VMs easily: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/examples/ubuntu....

comment by cpach · 2024-05-28 · in Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

Yes, using X forwarding and XQuartz for instance. However, there are some bugs. https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/2099

comment by ilyagr · 2024-05-27 · in Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

See "Adopters" section of the GitHub README: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima?tab=readme-ov-file#adopters

comment by carwyn · 2024-05-27 · in Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

…://github.com/noop-inc/template-java-spring-boot/blob/m... they seem to be using the excellent lima < https://github.com/lima-vm/lima#readme > for booting on macOS; I run colima for its containerd and k8s support but strongly recommend…

comment by mdaniel · 2024-03-27 · in Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments?

…run an amd64 VM, which I need to run a stubborn service for work that doesn't run on arm CPUs. [1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/tree/master/examples

comment by freetime2 · 2024-01-16 · in Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS

…vms and inspecting the command line it generates. You might find an option you were missing. (1) https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by r-bar · 2023-12-29 · in Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?

…that's not a terminal emulator is somehow enough? Related bug affecting Lima (blocked by this one): https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/2 This is the first I'd heard of 'app nap'. I guess macOS does iOS things and actively freezes apps…

comment by pxc · 2023-12-20 · in Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features

…to get started. Extremely quick to stand up a single node cluster, or many types of VMs in lima. https://github.com/lima-vm/lima limactl start template://k3s https://github.com/abiosoft/colima colima start --kubernetes The tools are a bit…

comment by mhio · 2023-10-11 · in K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes

…I'm sure you can make that work), Lima seems to be the go-to in the user 'community', as it were: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima If you use ARM guests on Apple Silicon, you should get good perf just like with stuff in the OP. (Like UTM,…

comment by pxc · 2023-08-20 · in Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy

…for enterprise networks. Rancher Desktop wraps Lima with k3s integration and GUI. * Github: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima * Talks: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/talks.md Also see * sshocker: ssh + reverse sshfs + port…

comment by yarapavan · 2023-07-17 · in Lima: Linux Virtual Machines on macOS

It's even possible to run FreeBSD too[1] [1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/pull/1509

comment by xvilka · 2023-07-11 · in Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac

Oh sick! According to some of their GitHub issues ( https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/1202 ) they do setup Rosetta. I'll have to check this out then!

comment by hatf0 · 2023-07-10 · in Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac

It is an option in Lima, I’m not sure if they handle setting up Rosetta yet though: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/vmtype.md

comment by stetrain · 2023-07-10 · in Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac

…this Virtualization framework providers an entire VM with virtio peripherals including a display. https://github.com/lima-vm/lima can use Virtualization framework for creating VMs, there is also https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli as a very…

comment by sigmaris · 2023-06-04 · in Apple Virtualization Framework

Have you tried lima? https://lima-vm.io/ https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by digikata · 2023-04-28 · in Ask HN: Best way to run Linux VMs on M1 Mac with fileSharing/shared networking?

…They’re the same setup really. If you want something like WSL2, I would recommend Lima ( https://github.com/lima-vm/lima ). Edit: Well, they’re not completely the same. WSL2 is using virtualization, but the WSL instances are actually using…

comment by kuhsaft · 2023-04-19 · in Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC

Have you seen https://github.com/lima-vm/lima ? Runs linux VMs and can run x64 via quemu or even using rosetta2 & apple virtualization framework

comment by shoo_pl · 2023-03-11 · in Box64 – Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator Targeted at ARM64 Linux Devices

…much on it, as I have an Intel, but I'd say the best two options you have now are Lima and UTM: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://mac.getutm.app/ I checked Virtualbox this week and it's also beta/testing for M1

comment by tecleandor · 2023-02-24 · in M1 MBP down to 3.5hr battery life when writing code

Lima[0] is also great if you just need command-line Linux. [0]: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by Aaron2222 · 2023-02-17 · in Microsoft to support Windows 11 on M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership

When you're right, you're right. https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/examples/default... 4gig default ~$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3907 304 1446 1 2156 3431 Swap: 0 Thank you.

comment by MuffinFlavored · 2023-02-09 · in Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools

…on my 8GB Mac so I investigated what I thought would be "native" (arm64) Lima. I tried this k8s https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/f7e7addab557da560da7146... example thinking it'd be a thin wrapper around QEMU. 6gb+ usage RAM with…

comment by MuffinFlavored · 2023-02-09 · in Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools

…a Linux machine now. MacOS is not without its developer power tools, if you dig around enough! [1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by _fzslm · 2023-01-17 · in MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

…you're running a recent version of Lima, and use a 9p mount. Edit: by editing one of these yamls: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/tree/master/examples

comment by zamalek · 2022-11-28 · in LXD containers on macOS at near-native speeds

…misremembering the details… EDIT: Looks like this was indeed just added in the last couple of weeks https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/c18ae239b69a47db77436...

comment by gpanders · 2022-11-27 · in LXD containers on macOS at near-native speeds

…figure out an optimization like that! A little off topic, but on my M1 Macs I have been using Lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima to get shells running in a Linux container. Google has done a very good job adding containerization to…

comment by mark_l_watson · 2022-11-20 · in Running Arm64.aarch64 FreeBSD on QEMU/UTM.app on Apple Silicon

…this but both of my M1 Macs only have 8G of memory. For text/shell only Linux, I have been using https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for the last week and for what I needed (I wanted to setup picolisp and Emacs for some experiments) it was all…

comment by mark_l_watson · 2022-11-19 · in VMware Fusion 13 – native support for Apple Silicon Macs

If this sounds interesting, see https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by anderspitman · 2022-11-16 · in Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released

…[2]: https://github.com/numtide/devshell [3]: https://flix.dev [4]: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima [5]: https://containers.dev/overview

comment by nvln · 2022-09-21 · in Ask HN: MacBook M1 development workflow?

Lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by throwaway888abc · 2022-09-20 · in Ask HN: MacBook M1 development workflow?

This is also achieved through: 1) https://github.com/lima-vm/lima 2) https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine With a nice CLI included.

comment by pickleMeTimbers · 2022-09-19 · in macOS Subsystem for Linux

…planning on switching from SSHFS to 9P [2]. [1] https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup [2] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/3401b97e602083cfc55b34e...

comment by ksbrooksjr · 2022-09-08 · in My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima is also excellent

comment by emmelaich · 2022-09-02 · in In Praise of QEMU

…than 8GB of memory? There's an option to pass to qemu for highmem. Could be hitting this issue: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/713

comment by ecnahc515 · 2022-08-22 · in QEMU Internals (2021)

Why can't you run docker on your work PC? If it's the licensing issues I'd recommend using lima-vm ( https://github.com/lima-vm/lima ) as a substitute.

comment by sporkland · 2022-07-31 · in Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines in a good sense

…in production it's pretty easy to integrate with Packer, which is another Hashicorp product. [1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

comment by ksbrooksjr · 2022-07-09 · in Ask HN: What's your experience with working M1 and M2 Macs?

If you had one early on consider it again. The first 6 months was abysmal for me, but ever since https://github.com/lima-vm/lima has been locked down I have ways to compile everything and run any container I want. `nerdctl` has taken a…

comment by chucky_z · 2022-07-08 · in Ask HN: What's your experience with working M1 and M2 Macs?

Wouldn't Lima serve that role? https://github.com/lima-vm/lima If memory serves me right, it works with Podman.

comment by ravenstine · 2022-06-04 · in Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?