Lima Files

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 (#5138, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313)

• Experimentally support Windows 11 guests (#5164 [#5185] [#5244], thanks to LFX mentee @mie313)

• Linux guest support:

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

• Windows host support:

• Change the default VM driver from wsl2 to qemu (#4788)

• Remove dependency on cygpath.exe (#5205, thanks to LFX mentee @mie313 with assistance from @jandubois)

• macOS host support:

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

• VM driver infrastructure:

• Update API (#4877, thanks to @unsuman)

• QEMU:

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

• VZ:

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

• limactl CLI:

• Add limactl screenshot (#5098, thanks to @trodemaster)
• Accept limactl edit flags in limactl restart (#5076, thanks to @itsme-ranger)

• Accept --shell flag in limactl (create|edit|start) (#5194, thanks to @unsuman)

• Networking:

• Limit socket_vmnet access from %everyone to the %admin group (#5190, thanks to @ekalinin)

• nerdctl:

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

• Templates:

• almalinux-kitten: Move to experimental/ (#4736)
• alpine: Support --plain (#3057)
• debian: Support --image-variant=nocloud (#5159, thanks to @Nachiket-Roy)
• fedora: support RISC-V 64 (#5201)
• ubuntu: Support --image-variant=minimal (#5159, thanks to @Nachiket-Roy)
• k8s: Support version and registry parameters (#4872 [#5200], thanks to @afbjorklund)
• 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

:::console
$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

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 .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda