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LIMA setup guide

See more about LIMA at project home page https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

Requirements

  • good terminal
  • homebrew - The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)

Installation

Using a terminal of choice, execute the following commands:

  1. Only once - brew install lima - This installs LIMA.
  2. Only once - limactl start /usr/local/share/doc/lima/examples/podman.yaml - This is mandatory, it will provision an environment named podman with proper configuration for api access.
  3. Any time - limactl shell podman - This is to drop a shell into the lima podman environment, you can then uname -a to see details of the subsystem.

NOTE - After restart, one may need to execute limactl start podman

Optionally

Add Docker

  1. Only once - limactl start /usr/local/share/doc/lima/examples/docker.yaml - This is mandatory, it will provision an environment named docker with proper configuration for api access.
  2. Any time - limactl shell docker - This is to drop a shell into the lima docker environment, you can then uname -a to see details of the subsystem.

NOTE - After restart, one may need to execute limactl start docker