NOTE Lima is not regularly tested on ARM Mac (due to lack of CI).
Prerequisite:
- QEMU 7.0 or later (Required, only if QEMU driver is used)
brew install lima
Homebrew formula is available here. Supports macOS and Linux.
sudo port install 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).
brew install jq
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
To change the build configuration, 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).
Kconfig tools
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.