FreeBSD

Running FreeBSD guests is experimentally supported since Lima v2.1.

• FreeBSD 15
• FreeBSD 16 (CURRENT)

limactl start --mount-none template:freebsd-15

limactl start template:experimental/freebsd-16

Prerequisites:

• QEMU
• xorriso (on non-macOS hosts)

Difference from Linux guests

• Several features are not implemented yet. See Caveats below.

Caveats

• No support for automatic port forwarding. Use ssh -L to manually set up port forwarding.
• No support for installing custom caCerts
• And more

FreeBSD prior to 16

• No support for mounting host directories. Use limactl cp or limactl shell --sync to share files with the host.