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brew

Installer lima avec Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, zypper, scoop, winget

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de lima pour les workflows d'agents IA.

installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install lima

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install lima

MacPorts ports tree · sysutils/lima/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add lima

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · lima · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#lima

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/li/lima/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install lima

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · lima · Source: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Scoopvérifié · 92%
scoop install main/lima

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/lima.json · Source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managervérifié · 92%
winget install --id Lima.Lima -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Lima.Lima · Source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Linux virtual machines

Commandes et alias

  • apptainer.lima
  • docker.lima
  • kubectl.lima
  • lima
  • limactl
  • nerdctl.lima
  • podman.lima

historique

Historique du projet et usages

Lima, short for Linux Machines, is a command-line tool for running Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding. It is best known in the macOS developer ecosystem as the low-level VM layer behind container workflows that need a real Linux guest.

Historique du projet

The Lima documentation says the project began in May 2021 to promote containerd and nerdctl to Mac users. Its first GitHub release, v0.1.0, was published in May 2021 and demonstrated a minimal workflow of starting a VM with limactl and running Linux commands through lima.

The project quickly broadened beyond its original containerd focus. Its README describes support for other container engines such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes, non-container workloads, and hosts beyond macOS including Linux and NetBSD.

Historique d'adoption

Lima gained adoption as developers looked for open, scriptable alternatives to heavier desktop container products on macOS, especially after Apple Silicon made VM architecture and filesystem integration more visible in local development. Projects such as Colima and Rancher Desktop used Lima as a building block for friendlier container and Kubernetes experiences.

Lima joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a Sandbox project in September 2022 and was promoted to Incubating in October 2025, reflecting its role as shared infrastructure for cloud-native local development.

Modes d'utilisation

Users create or start named instances with limactl, then run commands inside the guest via the lima wrapper or connect container tools to sockets exposed by the VM. Templates cover common setups such as containerd, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, and Apptainer.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Lima is package-nerd significant because it turns a pile of VM details into a package-manager-friendly CLI. Its Homebrew formula gives macOS users a reproducible way to get Linux containers, port forwarding, file sharing, QEMU or native virtualization choices, and YAML-controlled instances without installing a full GUI product.

Chronologie

  • 2021-05: Lima began with the goal of promoting containerd and nerdctl to Mac users.
  • 2021-05-14: The v0.1.0 release was published as the first public release.
  • 2022-09: Lima joined CNCF as a Sandbox project.
  • 2025-10: Lima was promoted to CNCF Incubating.

Related projects

  • Lima is related to containerd, nerdctl, QEMU, Apple's virtualization stack, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Colima, and Rancher Desktop. Its positioning is often compared to WSL2 because both provide Linux environments with host integration.

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : orange

virtual machine infrastructure.

Classificateur de risque

risque orange · confiance élevé · infrastructure

Pourquoi

  • virtual machine infrastructure

Signaux

  • override:lima

Comportement d'installation

  • Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
  • Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
  • Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
${LIMA_HOME:-$HOME/.lima}/<instance>/lima.yaml${LIMA_HOME:-$HOME/.lima}/_config/networks.yaml

exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
apptainer.limacliexécutable global
docker.limacliexécutable global
kubectl.limacliexécutable global
limacliexécutable global
limactlcliexécutable global
nerdctl.limacliexécutable global
podman.limacliexécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-25
version du gestionnaire2.2.0
gestionnaire mis à jour2026-07-21
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev2.2.0

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

  • OKAucun avertissement de fraîcheur n'a été généré.

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:lima
Version2.2.0
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquetshttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lima
Page d'accueilhttps://lima-vm.io/
Dépôthttps://github.com/lima-vm/lima
Docs amonthttps://lima-vm.io/docs
LicenceApache-2.0
Archive sourcehttps://github.com/lima-vm/lima/archive/refs/tags/v2.2.0.tar.gz
Dernière mise à jour2026-07-21T16:32:32Z
Pulseupdated
Dépendances de compilationgo
Bouteilledisponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrewnon défini
Serviceaucun déclaré
PrécautionsThe guest agents for non-native architectures are now provided in a separate formula: brew install lima-additional-guestagents

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namelima
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

lima

nix profile install nixpkgs#lima
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/lima/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

lima 1.2.1-r6

Linux virtual machine launcher focusing on running containers

https://lima-vm.io/

sudo apk add lima
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: lima
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lima from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

lima-bash-completion 1.2.1-r6

Bash completions for lima

https://lima-vm.io/

sudo apk add lima-bash-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: lima
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lima-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

lima-doc 1.2.1-r6

Linux virtual machine launcher focusing on running containers (documentation)

https://lima-vm.io/

sudo apk add lima-doc
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: lima
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lima-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

lima-fish-completion 1.2.1-r6

Fish completions for lima

https://lima-vm.io/

sudo apk add lima-fish-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: lima
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lima-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

lima-guestagent 1.2.1-r6

Lima guest agent

https://lima-vm.io/

sudo apk add lima-guestagent
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: lima
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lima-guestagent from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

lima-zsh-completion 1.2.1-r6

Zsh completions for lima

https://lima-vm.io/

sudo apk add lima-zsh-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: lima
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lima-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
zypper95%

lima 2.1.2-1.1

Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

sudo zypper install lima
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: lima
  • 3 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: lima from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

lima

sudo port install lima
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/lima/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

main/lima

scoop install main/lima
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/lima.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
winget95%

Lima.Lima

winget install --id Lima.Lima -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Lima
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Lima.Lima from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Sources utilisées

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment