Lima

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

The goal of Lima is to promote containerd including nerdctl (contaiNERD ctl) to Mac users, but Lima can be used for non-container applications as well.

limactl start to start a vm for lima to use

Now, lima drops me into a linux shell:

09:47 AM lexeme:~
$ lima
llimllib@lima-default:/Users/llimllib$

neat!

I'm not quite sure where the linux home drive lives:

llimllib@lima-default:/Users/llimllib$ uname -a
Linux lima-default 5.15.0-41-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 23 11:20:13 UTC 2022 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
llimllib@lima-default:/Users/llimllib$ cd
llimllib@lima-default:~$ pwd
/home/llimllib.linux

it sets up /tmp/lima and /Users as shareable directories by default

you can also run particular containers, utilizing containerd:

lima nerdctl run -d --name nginx -p 127.0.0.1:8080:80 nginx:alpine

limactl list to list the instances, limactl stop <INSTANCE> and/or limactl DELETE <INSTANCE> to kill it

limactl stop to stop the QEMU VM

I like it! But I'm not sure it will replace docker desktop for me, and also that it's the sort of thing I install and then six months later I'm like "what is this thing sucking up CPU" and oh yeah it's the VM thing I installed six months ago and forgot to use 🤷‍♂️