“How does Lima relate to Colima?”
Colima is a third-party project that wraps Lima to provide an alternative user experience for launching containers.
The key difference is that Colima launches Docker by default, while Lima launches containerd by default.
| Container | Lima | Colima |
|---|---|---|
| containerd | limactl start | colima start --runtime=containerd |
| Docker | limactl start template://docker | colima start |
| Podman | limactl start template://podman | - |
| Kubernetes (k3s) | limactl start template://k3s | colima start --kubernetes |
| Kubernetes (kubeadm) | limactl start template://k8s | - |
The colima CLI is similar to the limactl CLI, but there are subtle differences:
| Configuration | Lima | Colima |
|---|---|---|
| CPUs | limactl start --cpus=4 | colima start --cpu=4 |
| Reverse SSHFS | limactl start --mount-type=reverse-sshfs | colima start --mount-type=sshfs |
| Rosetta | limactl start --rosetta | colima start --vz-rosetta |
| Access to VM by IP | limactl start --network=lima:shared | colima start --network-address |