lima-manifests

Using lima to create VM on M1 Mac.

Install Lima

brew install lima

• lima-x86.yaml, simulate x86 arch on M1 Mac, and provide docker env to the host.
• minikube.yaml, create x86 arch VM, and run minikube inside.

Basic Usage

Create VM

limactl start <manifest-file>

use --name=default if you wanna make it as the default VM.

List VM

limactl list

Exec shell inside VM

limactl shell <vm-instance-name>

Use the docker context

docker context create amd64 --docker "host=unix://${HOME}/.lima/lima-x86/sock/docker.sock"
docker docker context use amd64

FAQ

• Facing an error like Error saving credentials: error storing credentials - err: exit status 1, out: Post "http://ipc/registry/credstore-updated": dial unix /Users/xxx/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/backend.sock: connect: no such file or directory`

  Solution: Simply remove "credStore": "desktop" from the ~/.docker/config.json.