Last month we shipped Lima v2.0, our biggest release yet🎉
What’s new:
-Plugin System for VM driver and CLI
-MCP tools for secure AI agents
-GPU acceleration with Krunkit driver
-URL scheme plugin
More in the @CloudNativeFdn blog: https://t.co/l7o8akcmuj
Checkout devvm - near instant VMs for every project folder.
- Detect toolchains from your project's files
- Agents run inside the vm
- Only your project folder mounted
- Network allowlist
- Secrets stay on your machine
- Built on @TheLimaProject
https://t.co/uhOaacCWkh
Lima v2.3 blog: Native on Windows, VMnet on Linux, and menu TUI
https://t.co/TMlgdfCBZP
At Kubecon, @_AkihiroSuda_ will present "Lima as the Universal AI Sandbox" (https://t.co/v24jgrsgz6) this Tuesday (16:40-17:10).
We'll hosting the Lima pavilion on Thursday (10:15-11:55 AM).
Give every project folder its own VM, and let your coding agent loose in there instead of on your Mac.
devvm makes one VM per project. Only that project folder gets mounted, at the same path as on your machine, so ~/.ssh, ~/.aws and ~/Documents stay out of reach. The network is allowlisted by default, and your GitHub and Claude Code tokens stay on the host.
It reads your project files and sets up the toolchain for you, so a folder with package.json gets node. Claude Code, Codex and opencode run inside with your own settings, skills and MCP servers. The base image is built once, and after that new VMs start in seconds.
Want the agent nowhere near your working tree? devvm --clone gives the VM its own copy of the repo, and its work only reaches yours when you git fetch it.
Free and open source (MIT), built on Lima. Runs on macOS 13+ or Linux.
https://t.co/kVOsfdw3lp
Released Lima v2.3:
🪟Experimentally support HCS driver (Windows hosts)
🍎Attach host block devices to VZ guests (macOS hosts)
🐧Experimentally support shared/host/bridged networks (Linux hosts)
🖥��limactl menu: a menu UI
https://t.co/wnYYJwTprn
Meet us at #KubeCon next week!
Lima v2.3.0-rc.0 highlights:
🪟Experimentally support HCS driver (Windows hosts)
🍎Attach host block devices to VZ guests (macOS hosts)
��Experimentally support shared/host/bridged networks (Linux hosts)
🖥️limactl menu: a menu UI
GA next week! 🟢
https://t.co/csSkCe2O6n
We have events during #KubeCon next month!
- Nov 10 (Tue), 16:40-17:10, "Lima as the Universal AI Sandbox" by @_AkihiroSuda_
- Nov 12 (Thr), 10:15-11:55, Lima pavilion
💡We have a 15% off promocode for #KubeCon !
Join #lima in the CNCF slack to grab it: https://t.co/GGTeWeaoTC
I made our #PVYlima Desktop capable to run #FreeBSD 15 native on macOS. With Stats and PIDs and Shared / Restricted Folder and all the fancy nice to have... I think, two or three more refinements and we gonna ship it for free... Can run Dockerhost, Can create KVM Images, Can Run Kubernetes even with Longhorn, or FREE BSD... a Distro which needs to be FREE... They need more resources. The Best ? Each VM is a declarative YAML File between 16 -64 Lines of Code. Share it over chat or git.
📢 Lima Community Meeting is on Thursday!
📅 Thu Oct 15, 05:30 UTC
⏰ Wed 22:30 PDT | 07:30 CEST | 11:00 IST | 14:30 JST
📝 Agenda: v2.3 planning
🔗 https://t.co/7QESA1kc3d
Our meetings are open to EVERYONE, not just maintainers!
Released Lima v2.2.1 for several bug fixes.
Also released v2.3.0-beta.1, with significant improvements for Windows hosts.
Thanks to all the contributors! 💚
https://t.co/elXJ0VQbYs
https://t.co/RIbTLowo6m
@LLMJunky Always good to isolate your LLMs in a real sandbox, like a VM. I recently wrote a guide for doing that using Lima VM: https://t.co/5pjah0SRq3
Shipped Kern v1.14.15 . It can now run locally on your machine 🎊
Building Kern, I realised most of my users are technical, and many already run their own bare metal. Paying AWS prices doesn't make sense.
So now you can self host it with Lima VMs on macOS and Linux. Completely free, just follow readme at https://t.co/zgadEcAkHJ
Give coding agents a disposable VM—not your daily machine.
Trail of Bits’ coop runs Claude Code or Codex inside per-project VMs: Firecracker microVMs on Linux, Lima on macOS. `coop up` syncs your project; profiles add dev tools, and stopped VMs can be checkpointed and restored.
That makes risky repos, agent evals, and parallel work easier to contain. Treat the VM as the trust boundary—and read the egress model, not magic.
Je viens de découvrir Lima. Une VM qui s’installe sur le CLI et qui a automatiquement accès aux files de la machine physique. Elle ne consomme presque rien en espace comparée aux VM graphiques.
C’est incroyable !