macOS

Running macOS guests is experimentally supported since Lima v2.1.

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The user password is randomly generated and stored in the ~/password file in the VM. Consider changing it after the first login.

limactl shell macos cat /Users/${USER}.guest/password

Difference from Linux guests

• Password login is enabled
• Password-less sudo is disabled, except for /sbin/shutdown -h now
• Several features are not implemented yet. See Caveats below.

Caveats

• No support for turning off the video display.
• No support for automatic port forwarding. Use ssh -L to manually set up port forwarding, or, use the vzNAT network to access the guest by its IP.
• No support for installing custom caCerts