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How to Install Lima on macOS Using 9 Easy Steps 1

How to Install Lima on macOS Using 9 Easy Steps

March 17, 2023 by cyberithub

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  * How to Install Lima on macOS Using 9 Easy Steps
      + Step 1: Prerequisites
      + Step 2: Install Lima
      + Step 3: Check Version
      + Step 4: Start VM
      + Step 5: Open Shell
      + Step 6: List VMs
      + Step 7: Stop VM
      + Step 8: Delete VM
      + Step 9: Uninstall Lima

In this article, we will see how to install Lima on macOS Using 9
Easy Steps. Lima is a free and open source utility to launch linux
virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding
(similar to WSL2), and containerd on macOS based systems. So
basically, it is like installing containerd in macOS unofficially.
While lima is mostly created for macOS systems but it can also be
used on Linux based systems. The ultimate goal of lima is to promote
use of containerd with nerdctl to Mac users. It is fairly easy to
install and work with. Here we will see the steps to install Lima on
macOS Monterey system using 9 easy steps.

 

How to Install Lima on macOS Using 9 Easy Steps

How to Install Lima on macOS Using 9 Easy Steps

Also Read: How to Install yq command line tool on macOS(Monterey 12)

Step 1: Prerequisites

a) You should have a running macOS system.

b) You should have access to install the packages in your system.

c) You should have brew utility available in your system.

 

Step 2: Install Lima

To install lima in your macOS system, you need to use brew install
lima command as shown below. This will download and install the
package along with all its dependencies.

cyberithub@lpros2d0531 ~ % brew install lima
Running `brew update --auto-update`...
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json
####################################################################### 100.0%
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json
####################################################################### 100.0%
==> Fetching dependencies for lima: capstone, pcre2, gettext, glib, ca-certificates, gmp, libunistring, libidn2, libtasn1,
nettle, p11-kit, openssl@1.1, libevent, libnghttp2, unbound, gnutls, jpeg-turbo, libpng,
libslirp, libssh, libusb, lzo, ncurses, pixman, snappy, vde, lz4, xz, zstd, and qemu
==> Fetching capstone
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/capstone/manifests/4.0.2
########################################################################  100.0%
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/capstone/blobs/sha256:dda60f389b39dc6b777940428feccee4a0b50db91629d152a5e62a95c3915d38
==> Downloading from https://pkg-containers.githubusercontent.com/ghcr1/blobs/sha256:dda60f389b39dc6b777940428feccee4a0b50db91629d152a5e62a95c3915d38?se=2023-03-16T11%3A40%3A00Z&sig=2aV8MPg2ez6XCKoRsJHoT
########################################################################  100.0%
.......................................................

 

Step 3: Check Version

To check the currently installed limactl utility version, you need to
use limactl --version command as shown below.

cyberithub@lpros2d0531 ~ % limactl --version
limactl version 0.15.0

 

Step 4: Start VM

Now that lima is installed successfully, you can now create a default
instance using limactl start command as shown below. This will create
a default linux instance by pulling the latest ubuntu release using
current configuration. It will run nerdctl from inside the vm without
installing it as a local utility.

cyberithub@lpros2d0531 ~ % limactl start
? Creating an instance "default" Proceed with the current configuration
INFO[0012] Attempting to download the image from "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/22.10/release-20230215/ubuntu-22.10-server-cloudimg-amd64.img" digest="sha256:5e5c68cb12002111032d46489afe8596de575869696a59d2608a1895ca2b1fe6"
697.56 MiB / 697.56 MiB [------------------------------] 100.00% 3.30 MiB/s
INFO[0228] Downloaded the image from "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/22.10/release-20230215/ubuntu-22.10-server-cloudimg-amd64.img"
INFO[0235] Attempting to download the nerdctl archive from "https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/releases/download/v1.2.1/nerdctl-full-1.2.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz" digest="sha256:e8a3e40d442c566ee494375a4c6753121da69d8d7c7837f50f65771742757b36c"
230.56 MiB / 230.56 MiB [------------------------------]  100.00% 3.04 MiB/s
INFO[0314] Downloaded the nerdctl archive from "https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/releases/download/v1.2.1/nerdctl-full-1.2.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz"
INFO[0323] [hostagent] Starting QEMU (hint: to watch the boot progress, see "/Users/cyberithub/.lima/default/serial.log")
INFO[0323] SSH Local Port: 60022
INFO[0323] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: "ssh"
INFO[0333] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: "ssh"
INFO[0344] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: "ssh"
INFO[0344] [hostagent] The essential requirement 1 of 5 is satisfied
INFO[0344] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 2 of 5: "user session ready for ssh"
INFO[0345] [hostagent] The essential requirement 2 of 5 is satisfied
INFO[0345] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 3 of 5: "sshfs binary to be installed"
INFO[0369] [hostagent] The essential requirement 3 of 5 is satisfied
INFO[0369] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 4 of 5: "/etc/fuse.conf (/etc/fuse3.conf) to contain \"user_allow_other\"""
INFO[0369] [hostagent] The essential requirement 4 of 5 is satisfied
INFO[0369] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 5 of 5: "the guest agent to be running"
INFO[0369] [hostagent] The essential requirement 5 of 5 is satisfied
INFO[0369] [hostagent] Mounting "/Users/cyberithub" on "/Users/cyberithub"
INFO[0369] [hostagent] Mounting "/tmp/lima" on "/tmp/lima"
INFO[0370] [hostagent] Waiting for the optional requirement 1 of 2: "systemd must be available"
INFO[0370] [hostagent] Forwarding "/run/lima-guestagent.sock" (guest) to "/Users/cyberithub/.lima/default/ga.sock" (host)
INFO[0369] [hostagent] The optional requirement 1 of 2 is satisfied
INFO[0369] [hostagent] Not forwarding TCP 127.0.0.54:53
INFO[0369] [hostagent] Not forwarding TCP 127.0.0.53:53
INFO[0369] [hostagent] Waiting for the optional requirement 2 of 2: "containerd binaries to be installed"
INFO[0369] [hostagent] Not forwarding TCP [::]:22
INFO[0369] [hostagent] The optional requirement 2 of 2 is satisfied
INFO[0369] [hostagent] Waiting for the final requirement 1 of 1: "boot scripts must have finished"
INFO[0391] [hostagent] The final requirement 1 of 1 is satisfied
INFO[0391] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell

 

Step 5: Open Shell

After instance creation, you can enter into the instance by running
lima command as shown below. Then you can run uname -a command to get
more information about the instance. Finally you can exit the
instance by running exit command as shown below.

cyberithub@lpros2d0531 ~ % lima
[cyberithub@lima-default:/Users/cyberithub$ uname -a
Linux lima-default 5.19.0-31-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 20 15:20:08 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[cyberithub@lima-default:/Users/cyberithub$ exit
logout

 

Step 6: List VMs

To check all the instances, you need to use limactl list command as
shown below. This will show the instance details such as instance
name, running status, ssh port, vmtype, architecture type, number of
cpus allocated, amount of memory allocated, amount of disk allocated
and instance directory path.

cyberithub@lpros2d0531 ~ % limactl list
NAME     STATUS   SSH               VMTYPE  ARCH     CPUS  MEMORY  DISK    DIR
default  Running  127.0.0.1:60022   qemu    x86_64   4     4GiB    100GiB  ~/.lima/default

 

Step 7: Stop VM

If you are looking to stop a running instance then you need to use
limactl stop <instance_name> syntax. For example, here we are
stopping default instance using limactl stop default command as shown
below.

cyberithub@lpros2d0531 ~ % limactl stop default
INFO[0000] Sending SIGINT to hostagent process 98746
INFO[0000] Waiting for the host agent and the driver processes to shut down
INFO[0000] [hostagent] Received SIGINT, shutting down the host agent
INFO[0000] [hostagent] Shutting down the host agent
INFO[0000] [hostagent] Stopping forwarding "/run/lima-guestagent.sock" (guest) to "/Users/m1063177/.lima/default/ga.sock" (host)
INFO[0000] Unmounting  "/Users/cyberithub"
INFO[0000] [hostagent] "/tmp/lima"
INFO[0000] [hostagent] Shutting down QEMU with ACPI
INFO[0000] [hostagent] Sending QMP system_powerdown command
INFO[0000] [hostagent] QEMU has exited

 

Step 8: Delete VM

You can also delete any VM by using limactl delete <instance_name>
syntax. Here we are deleting default instance by using limactl delete
default command as shown below.

cyberithub@lpros2d0531 ~ % limactl delete default
INFO[0000] The qemu driver process seems already stopped
INFO[0000] The host agent process seems already stopped
INFO[0000] Removing *.pid *.sock under "/Users/cyberithub/.lima/default"
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/cyberithub/.lima/default/ha.sock"
INFO[0000] Deleted "default" ("/Users/cyberithub/.lima/default")

 

Step 9: Uninstall Lima

Once you are done with Lima, you can choose to uninstall it from your
macOS system by using brew uninstall lima command as shown below.

cyberithub@lpros2d0531 ~ % brew uninstall lima
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json
##0=#  #
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/lima/0.15.0... (74 files, 129MB)

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