Installation

sudo port install lima

Port: https://ports.macports.org/port/lima/

nix-env -i lima

Nix file: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/virtualization/lima/default.nix

Download the binary archive of Lima from https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/releases, and extract it under /usr/local (or somewhere else).

VERSION=$(curl -fsSL https://api.github.com/repos/lima-vm/lima/releases/latest | jq -r .tag_name)
curl -fsSL "https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/releases/download/${VERSION}/lima-${VERSION:1}-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m).tar.gz" | tar Cxzvm /usr/local

The source code can be found at https://github.com/lima-vm/lima.git

git clone https://github.com/lima-vm/lima.git
cd lima
make
make install

The installation directory ($PREFIX) defaults to /usr/local.

Run make help-variables to show other Makefile variables.

Advanced configuration with Kconfig tools

(This step is not needed for most users)

To change the build configuration such as the guest architectures, run make config or make menuconfig.

This requires kconfig tools installed, it is also possible to edit .config. The default configuration can be found in the file config.mk (make syntax).

The tools are available as either “kconfig-frontends” or “kbuild-standalone”. There is one conf for the text, and one mconf for the menu interface.

A python implementation is available at https://pypi.org/project/kconfiglib. It can be installed with pip install --user kconfiglib, including guiconfig.