v0.17.0

This release adds the limactl create command.
Now it is discouraged (not deprecated) to use limactl start for creating new instances.

Discouraged form:

limactl start --name=foo template://docker

Recommended form:

limactl create --name=foo template://docker
limactl start foo

The limactl create command also takes several flags like --cpus=1 --memory=2 --vm-type=vz --mount-writable=true for modifying the template.
Some of these flags are similar to the flags of colima start.

Changes

• limactl CLI:

  • Add limactl create (#1643, #1677).
  • Add --cpus, --memory, --mount-type, --vm-type, ..., --video (#1468, #1696, #1709)

• YAML:

  • Adjust the default CPUs and memory size depending on the host capacity (#1603)
  • Allow leaving additional disks unformatted (#1516, thanks to @afbjorklund)

• VZ:

  • Remove dependency on qemu-img binary for converting qcow2 to raw (#1507)
  • Enable virtiofs by default when vmType == vz (#1613)
  • Support video display (#1597, #1602, thanks to @balajiv113)

• QEMU:

  • Connect a virtio-serial device to serialv.log in the instance directory (#1674, #1693)
  • Connect a pci-serial device to serialp.log for making more boot logs visible on ARM (#1703)
  • Support virtiofs on Linux hosts (#1628, thanks to @refi64).
    macOS hosts still require VZ for using virtiofs.
  • Support armv7l (32-bit ARM) architecture (#1633)

• nerdctl:

  • Update from v1.4.0 to v1.5.0 (#1700)

• Templates:

  • CentOS Stream 8: update to 20230710.0 (#1700)
  • CentOS Stream 9: update to 20230720.0 (#1700)
  • Debian: update to 12 (#1635, #1700, thanks to @unidevel)
  • Oracle Linux: update to 8.8 and 9.2 (#1700)
  • Ubuntu: update to release-20230729 (#1700)
  • openSUSE: update to 15.5 (#1700)
  • Add template://experimental/rke2 (#1650, thanks to @Hirozy)
  • Promote template://docker to Tier 1 (#1694)

• Misc:

  • Makefile: add make minimal (#1673)
  • Rename "examples" to "templates" (#1679, #1707)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/35?closed=1
Thanks to @ArmingLou @Hirozy @afbjorklund @a-palchikov @balajiv113 @fyuan1316 @jandubois @refi64 @unidevel

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

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The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/5757601750

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