lima-vm/lima

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Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

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Forks: 957
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 428
Avg merge: 2d 6h
Merged PRs (30d): 53

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 17, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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428 open issues indexed

lima+wayland Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#2 · 35 comments · 13 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Use a different cache dir when LIMA_HOME is set to a different path Open

enhancement priority/low

lima-vm/lima#63 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
guestagent: show sshd logs in virtserial when sshd failed to start up Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#82 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Ubuntu and Debian intermittently fail to boot: `Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work` Open

area/test bug guest/debian guest/ubuntu priority/high

lima-vm/lima#84 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
invalidate cache with HTTP ETag Open

enhancement priority/low

lima-vm/lima#89 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
ssh.ExecuteScript logging not included in hostagent logs Open

enhancement priority/low

lima-vm/lima#112 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
`limactl ls` should verify for "Running" instances that the process is still alive Open

bug

lima-vm/lima#125 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Mounting single files into the guest Open

question

lima-vm/lima#130 · 4 comments · 5 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
vmnet: support mDNS Open

component/network/vmnet enhancement

lima-vm/lima#134 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
lima+X11 Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#151 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Instance status doesn't show when vde_vmnet network has broken Open

component/network/vmnet enhancement

lima-vm/lima#178 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Ways to get ICMP to work Open

component/qemu enhancement

lima-vm/lima#193 · 15 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Private mirror and trust settings Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#196 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
`limactl start` should wait until all provision scripts complete (and report errors on failure) Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#209 · 0 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
chown/chmod on mounted directory: Permission denied Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#231 · 28 comments · 7 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
limactl start <instance> can not work when reboot system Open

status/more-info-needed

lima-vm/lima#236 · 15 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Logging questions Open

question

lima-vm/lima#240 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
There should be an option to run provisioning scripts after mounts are done Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#287 · 4 comments · 7 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
CPU usage while copying file to host Open

area/performance expert

lima-vm/lima#296 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Overlapping mounts don't work correctly Open

bug component/sshfs

lima-vm/lima#302 · 4 comments · 9 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Add snapshotting functionality Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#368 · 15 comments · 5 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Fail to start VM when user is not valid Linux username Open

bug

lima-vm/lima#407 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Using --env for nerdctl doesn't pass through current environment values Open

component/nerdctl enhancement expert

lima-vm/lima#412 · 11 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Is it possible to share clipboard with host? Open

enhancement status/more-info-needed

lima-vm/lima#424 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
limactl start fails to complete to ready if host's proxy is inaccessible Open

bug

lima-vm/lima#432 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
VM randomly loses network Open

component/qemu

lima-vm/lima#442 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
host.lima.internal maybe not restrictive enough and incompatible with host-gateway docker(-compose) settings Open

lima-vm/lima#450 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
SSH `ControlMaster` breaks group update in provision section Open

lima-vm/lima#455 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Adding schema version and required lima version to lima.yaml Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#473 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
issue when i create fifo in c Open

component/sshfs

lima-vm/lima#481 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Provide install script/package for Linux based systems Open

lima-vm/lima#488 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
LIma VM randomly and sporadically loses network connectivity Open

component/qemu guest/alpine

lima-vm/lima#501 · 7 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
MacOS M1 Limactl start hangs on Waiting for essential requirement 3 of 5: sshfs binary to be installed (`Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:48100 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)`) Open

lima-vm/lima#503 · 25 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Store actual configuration in instance directory Open

lima-vm/lima#510 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Some limitations of the built-in DNS service Open

enhancement priority/low

lima-vm/lima#524 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Cannot access randomly selected port Open

docker

lima-vm/lima#527 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
env variable for nerdctl isn't set Open

bug component/nerdctl

lima-vm/lima#532 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Newlines in `lima` invocations are not correctly passed Open

lima-vm/lima#542 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Support passing --watch flag to limactl list Open

enhancement

lima-vm/lima#546 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
consider LIMA_INSTANCE environment variable in limactl Open

enhancement status/more-info-needed

lima-vm/lima#562 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
delete all instances at once Open

enhancement priority/low

lima-vm/lima#581 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
mounts fail after lima reboot (`fuse: mountpoint is not empty`) Open

component/sshfs

lima-vm/lima#584 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Lima VM doesn't support the existing VPN connections on host (Viscosity VPN) Open

enhancement help wanted

lima-vm/lima#587 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Implement suspend and resume of VM Open

component/qemu enhancement

lima-vm/lima#598 · 3 comments · 9 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Compiling go code, inside host mounted folder prevent the binary file being executable Open

bug component/sshfs

lima-vm/lima#602 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Failure to run centos/postgresql-96-centos7 with userdata on a host mount Open

bug component/sshfs

lima-vm/lima#607 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Add `name` field to `provision` Open

lima-vm/lima#636 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
docker pull large image Fails (` ApplyLayer exit status 1 stdout: stderr: invalid argument`) Open

docker guest/fedora

lima-vm/lima#637 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Mount points do not resume after stop/start/reboot/etc of podman instance Open

podman

lima-vm/lima#663 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
SSH host keys are regenerated each time a VM does a stop/start Open

bug

lima-vm/lima#678 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026

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