lima-vm/lima
Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
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Where it stands
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4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 239 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #3 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 2, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding to run containers and Linux workloads on macOS and other hosts.
- Enables seamless containerd and Docker usage on macOS with minimal setup, supporting multiple container engines and non-macOS platforms.
- Use for running containerd-based container workloads on macOS without native Linux support.
- Use for developing and testing Kubernetes clusters locally on macOS using lightweight Linux VMs.
- Use for running Linux command-line tools and applications on macOS or other supported hosts in isolated virtual machines.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding (similar to WSL2).
The original goal of Lima was to promote containerd including nerdctl (contaiNERD ctl) to Mac users, but Lima can be used for non-container applications as well.
Lima also supports other container engines (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, etc.) and non-macOS hosts (Linux, NetBSD, etc.).
See https://lima-vm.io/docs/ for the further information.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
993+55
Open issues
508-14
Compared with peers in iOS
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 21.4K | +8.7K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| anomalyco/hex | 6.2K | +1.9K | 75 | 8 days ago |
| nightly-labs/openbot | 6.9K | +1.6K | 75 | today |
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.9K | +859 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| crmne/spotifast | 10.2K | +524 | 75 | 7 days ago |
| lima-vm/lima | 22.2K | — | 65 | 3 days ago |
| Category median | 10.2K | +1.6K | 75 | — |
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