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v2.0.0-alpha.2

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v2.0.0-alpha.2 Pre-release
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Highlights:

Other notable changes:

  • /tmp/lima is no longer mounted by default (#3951)
  • SSH port is no longer hard-coded to 60022 for the "default" instance (#3780)
  • Forward UDP ports by default (#4054)
  • Support CLI plugins (#3834, #4009, thanks to @olamilekan000)
  • Support custom URL scheme plugins (#3937, thanks to @jandubois).
    template://default is now recommended to be written as template:default. The old form is still supported. [New in v2.0.0-alpha.2]

Changes

  • VM driver infrastructure:

  • MCP:

  • VZ:

  • limactl CLI:

    • Add limactl (start|restart) --progress flag to show the progress of provisioning (#3846, #3915, thanks to @olamilekan000 @norio-nomura)
    • Add limactl (create|start|edit) --port-forward flag for static port forwarding (#3699, thanks to @Horiodino).
      Usually not needed, but useful for instances created with --plain.
    • Add limactl (create|start|edit) --ssh-port flag (#3791)
    • Add limactl (create|start|edit) --mount-only flag (#3947).
      Similar to --mount, but overrides the existing mounts. Useful for mounting $(pwd).
    • Add limactl shell --preserve-env flag to propagate env vars from the host to VM (#3830, thanks to @olamilekan000).
      See also LIMA_SHELLENV_ALLOW and LIMA_SHELLENV_BLOCK.
    • Support CLI plugins (#3834, #4009, thanks to @olamilekan000)
    • Support custom URL scheme plugins (#3937, thanks to @jandubois).
      template://default is now recommended to be written as template:default. The old form is still supported. [New in v2.0.0-alpha.2]
    • Add limactl copy --backend=rsync flag as an alternative to scp backend (#3143, thanks to @olamilekan000)
    • Add limactl list--yq and limactl info --yq flags (#3998, thanks to @jandubois)

  • YAML:

    • Migrate cpuType to vmOpts.qemu (#3500, thanks to @unsuman)
    • Add yq provision mode (#3892, thanks to @norio-nomura)
    • Prohibit relative paths in YAML (#3950).
      Relative paths were never intended to be supported,
      but they were accidentally allowed due to a regression in v1.1.0.
      The CLI command limactl (create|start|edit) --mount DIR still supports relative paths.

  • Default template:

    • Remove /tmp/lima mount (#3951)
    • Stop hardcoding SSH port 60022 (#3780)

  • Port forwarding:

    • Support port forwarding in plain mode (#3699, thanks to @Horiodino)
    • Support host sockets in gRPC port forwarder (#4008, thanks to @norio-nomura)
    • Forward UDP ports by default (#4054)
    • Eliminated 3-second delay for detecting ports (#4066)
    • Removed iptables watcher for sudo nerdctl run -p ... (#4107).
      sudo nerdctl run -p ... now requires nerdctl v2.1.6 or later. [New in v2.0.0-alpha.2]

  • nerdctl:

  • Build system:

    • Remove Kconfig and config.mk, in favor of Makefile variables (#3732)

  • Templates:

  • Project:

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/59?closed=1

Thanks to @Horiodino @afbjorklund @alexandear @ashwat287 @bonifaido @dharsanb @jandubois @muchzill4 @ningmingxiao @norio-nomura @olamilekan000 @plandem @stek29 @unsuman @vishalanarase @zyfy29

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/18215279041

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 68126fab6e79467798d6edc8bcacebeca4d68d3cb79564079ce0a96d1cf332dd .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

Contributors

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v2.0.0-alpha.1

24 Sep 01:53
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Highlights:

Other notable changes:

  • /tmp/lima is no longer mounted by default (#3951)
  • SSH port is no longer hard-coded to 60022 for the "default" instance (#3780)
  • Forward UDP ports by default (#4054) [New in alpha.1]

Changes

  • VM driver infrastructure:

  • MCP:

  • VZ:

  • limactl CLI:

    • Add limactl (start|restart) --progress flag to show the progress of provisioning (#3846, #3915, thanks to @olamilekan000 @norio-nomura)
    • Add limactl (create|start|edit) --port-forward flag for static port forwarding (#3699, thanks to @Horiodino).
      Usually not needed, but useful for instances created with --plain.
    • Add limactl (create|start|edit) --ssh-port flag (#3791)
    • Add limactl (create|start|edit) --mount-only flag (#3947).
      Similar to --mount, but overrides the existing mounts. Useful for mounting $(pwd).
    • Add limactl shell --preserve-env flag to propagate env vars from the host to VM (#3830, thanks to @olamilekan000).
      See also LIMA_SHELLENV_ALLOW and LIMA_SHELLENV_BLOCK.
      • 8000
    • Support CLI plugins (#3834, #4009, thanks to @olamilekan000)
    • Add limactl copy --backend=rsync flag as an alternative to scp backend (#3143, thanks to @olamilekan000) [New in alpha.1]
    • Add limactl list--yq and limactl info --yq flags (#3998, thanks to @jandubois) [New in alpha.1]

  • YAML:

    • Migrate cpuType to vmOpts.qemu (#3500, thanks to @unsuman)
    • Add yq provision mode (#3892, thanks to @norio-nomura)
    • Prohibit relative paths in YAML (#3950).
      Relative paths were never intended to be supported,
      but they were accidentally allowed due to a regression in v1.1.0.
      The CLI command limactl (create|start|edit) --mount DIR still supports relative paths.

  • Default template:

    • Remove /tmp/lima mount (#3951)
    • Stop hardcoding SSH port 60022 (#3780)

  • Port forwarding:

    • Support port forwarding in plain mode (#3699, thanks to @Horiodino)
    • Support host sockets in gRPC port forwarder (#4008, thanks to @norio-nomura) [New in alpha.1]
    • Forward UDP ports by default (#4054) [New in alpha.1]
    • Eliminated 3-second delay for detecting ports (#4066 [New in alpha.1]

  • Build system:

    • Remove Kconfig and config.mk, in favor of Makefile variables (#3732)

  • Templates:

  • Project:

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/59?closed=1

Thanks to @Horiodino @afbjorklund @alexandear @ashwat287 @bonifaido @dharsanb @jandubois @muchzill4 @ningmingxiao @norio-nomura @olamilekan000 @plandem @stek29 @unsuman @vishalanarase @zyfy29

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/17963648712

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is e66aacaa48c5aa91d4d0489e12aa0ecd36aa3cd0df830784b5fde37a96cbd6bc .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

Contributors

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v2.0.0-alpha.0

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Highlights:

Other notable changes:

  • /tmp/lima is no longer mounted by default (#3951)
  • SSH port is no longer hard-coded to 60022 for the "default" instance (#3780)

Changes

  • VM driver infrastructure:

  • VZ:

  • limactl CLI:

    • Add limactl (start|restart) --progress flag to show the progress of provisioning (#3846, #3915, thanks to @olamilekan000 @norio-nomura)
    • Add limactl (create|start|edit) --port-forward flag for static port forwarding (#3699, thanks to @Horiodino).
      Usually not needed, but useful for instances created with --plain.
    • Add limactl (create|start|edit) --ssh-port flag (#3791)
    • Add limactl (create|start|edit) --mount-only flag (#3947).
      Similar to --mount, but overrides the existing mounts. Useful for mounting $(pwd).
    • Add limactl shell --preserve-env flag to propagate env vars from the host to VM (#3830, thanks to @olamilekan000).
      See also LIMA_SHELLENV_ALLOW and LIMA_SHELLENV_BLOCK.
    • Support CLI plugins (#3834, thanks to @olamilekan000)

  • YAML:

    • Migrate cpuType to vmOpts.qemu (#3500, thanks to @unsuman)
    • Add yq provision mode (#3892, thanks to @norio-nomura)
    • Prohibit relative paths in YAML (#3950).
      Relative paths were never intended to be supported,
      but they were accidentally allowed due to a regression in v1.1.0.
      The CLI command limactl (create|start|edit) --mount DIR still supports relative paths.

  • Default template:

    • Remove /tmp/lima mount (#3951)
    • Stop hardcoding SSH port 60022 (#3780)

  • Port forwarding:

  • Build system:

    • Remove Kconfig and config.mk, in favor of Makefile variables (#3732)

  • Templates:

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/59?closed=1

Thanks to @Horiodino @afbjorklund @alexandear 8000 @ashwat287 @bonifaido @dharsanb @jandubois @muchzill4 @ningmingxiao @norio-nomura @olamilekan000 @plandem @stek29 @unsuman @vishalanarase @zyfy29

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/17500188604

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 6d2fa764a4d6773d19d721a495e1a6740fb6535f23e3aa81f02832c556ab62f5 .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

Contributors

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v1.2.1

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Changes

  • Cherry-picks from master to release/1.2 (#3750)
    • portfwd: create separate gRPC streams for each UDP client (#3724, thanks to @stek29)
    • qemuimgutil: fix "Failed to get "write" lock" error (#3742, thanks to @pavelanni)
    • Embed templates edited from the user interface (#3745, thanks to @afbjorklund)

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/16405168554

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is fda636e062d8f75a689071b308a94dc902111620f7122746fc0d172959d7d26a .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

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v1.2.0

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Changes

  • limactl CLI:
    • Add limactl network (list|create|delete) commands (#3677)
    • Add limactl clone OLDINST NEWINST command. Not to be confused with limactl copy, which copies files. (#3673)
    • Add limactl edit --mount-none flag (#3647)
  • Port forwarding:
    • Improve stability (#3684. #3708, thanks to @balajiv113)
    • De-deprecate LIMA_SSH_PORT_FORWARDER that was once deprecated in v1.1 (#3709)
  • nerdctl:
  • Templates:
    • default: update from Ubuntu 24.10 to 25.04 (#3643)
    • fedora: update from Fedora 41 to 42 (#3643)
    • almalinux-10: new template (#3602, thanks to @refi64)
    • rocky-10: new template (#3642)
    • experimental/debian-testing: new template (#3645)
    • experimental/ubuntu-next: new template (#3645)
  • Makefile:
    • Kconfig: deprecate (#3706)

Note

On Intel Mac, macOS 15.5 or later is needed to boot the default Ubuntu 25.04 template.

Workarounds for macOS <= 15.4 :

  • Option 1: Use QEMU
limactl create --vm-type=qemu
  • Option2: Use Ubuntu 24.04 template
limactl create --name=default template://ubuntu-24.04

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/61?closed=1

Thanks to
@AkinoKaede @Horiodino @afbjorklund @alexandear @arixmkii @balajiv113 @fruzitent @jandubois @kachick @mazzz1y @nirs @refi64 @songponssw @thomasjm @unsuman

Usage

$ limactl create
$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/16187325385

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is f4d57cdd637022ead291af680c0c88a8d07fd35fd6a779b7c6348e2c9a2ec2cc .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

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Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
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Important

Package maintainers should refer to "Hint for package maintainers" below

Highlights:

  • Simplification of YAMLs
  • New port forwarder implementation by default
  • DragonflyBSD hosts
  • S390X and PPC64LE guests
  • Smaller binary packages

Changes

  • Build system:
    • Split lima-additional-guestagents-*.tar.gz from lima-*.tar.gz (#3503)
    • Set CONFIG_GUESTAGENT_COMPRESS=y by default (#3529)
  • YAML:
  • QEMU:
    • Support DragonflyBSD hosts (#3356, thanks to @tuxillo)
    • Support S390X guests (#3319)
    • Support PPC64LE guests (#3488)
    • TCG: change the default CPU from qemu64 (x86-64 v1) to max (#3487)
    • Bump up the minimum QEMU version to v8.2.1 on ARM Mac. On Linux/x86_64, QEMU v6.2.0 is still supported. (#3491)
  • WSL2:
    • Lots of improvements (several PRs, thanks to @arixmkii)
  • Port forwarding:
    • Enable faster gRPC implementation by default (#3046)
  • limactl CLI:
  • Rootless Containers:
    • Allow UID >= 524288 (#3435)
  • nerdctl:
  • Templates:
    • ubuntu-25.04: New template (#3445).
      The default template still refers to Ubuntu 24.10, as ubuntu-25.04 needs
      the very recent release of macOS on Intel Mac by default (see the note below).
    • fedora-42: New template (#3434)
    • linuxbrew: New template (#3454)
    • almalinux-kitten-10: New template (#3084, thanks to @afbjorklund)
    • oraclelinux-8: Fix virtiofs support (#3441)

Note

On Intel Mac with --vm-type=vz, macOS 15.5 or later is needed to boot ubuntu-25.04 and fedora-42

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/26?closed=1
Thanks to @KGB33 @Nino-K @afbjorklund @alexandear @apachex692 @arixmkii @cakemanny @jandubois @jonas-peter @kairveeehh @liangyuanpeng @nirs @shenki @songponssw @suryaaprakassh @tatucosmin @tuxillo @unsuman @ycdzj

Hint for package maintainers

Starting with v1.1, the official binary packages of Lima are split to two files for the each of the host OS and the architectures to save the disk space:

  1. lima-<VERSION>-Darwin-arm64.tar.gz: (Built with make native)
  • The core components (bin/lima, bin/limactl, share/lima/templates, ...)
  • The guest agent for the native architecture (share/lima/lima-guestagent.Linux-aarch64.gz)
  1. lima-additional-guestagents-<VERSION>-Darwin-arm64.tar.gz: (Built with make additional-guestagents)
  • The guest agents for emulating non-native architectures (share/lima/lima-guestagent.Linux-{armv7l,ppc64le,riscv64,s390x,x86_64}.gz))

For compatibility reason, make still builds the guest agents for all the architectures by default.

Package maintainers are suggested to split their lima package to lima (make native) and lima-additional-guestagents (make additional-guestagents).

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/15154830653

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 4391505a7f833c8245497b29fec65743abb1561a275037f6d268026284883c8a .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

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Important

Package maintainers should refer to "Hint for package maintainers" below

Highlights:

  • Simplification of YAMLs
  • New port forwarder implementation by default
  • DragonflyBSD hosts
  • S390X and PPC64LE guests
  • Smaller binary packages

Changes

  • Build system:
    • Split lima-additional-guestagents-*.tar.gz from lima-.tar.gz` (#3503)
    • Set CONFIG_GUESTAGENT_COMPRESS=y by default (#3529)
  • YAML:
  • QEMU:
    • Support DragonflyBSD hosts (#3356, thanks to @tuxillo)
    • Support S390X guests (#3319)
    • Support PPC64LE guests (#3488)
    • TCG: change the default CPU from qemu64 (x86-64 v1) to max (#3487)
    • Bump up the minimum QEMU version to v8.2.1 on ARM Mac. On Linux/x86_64, QEMU v6.2.0 is still supported. (#3491)
  • WSL2:
    • Lots of improvements (several PRs, thanks to @arixmkii)
  • Port forwarding:
    • Enable faster gRPC implementation by default (#3046)
  • limactl CLI:
  • Rootless Containers:
    • Allow UID >= 524288 (#3435)
  • nerdctl:
  • Templates:
    • ubuntu-25.04: New template (#3445).
      The default template still refers to Ubuntu 24.10, as ubuntu-25.04 needs
      the very recent release of macOS on Intel Mac by default (see the note below).
    • fedora-42: New template (#3434)
    • linuxbrew: New template (#3454)
    • almalinux-kitten-10: New template (#3084, thanks to @afbjorklund)
    • oraclelinux-8: Fix virtiofs support (#3441)

Note

On Intel Mac with --vm-type=vz, macOS 15.5 or later is needed to boot ubuntu-25.04 and fedora-42

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/26?closed=1
Thanks to @KGB33 @Nino-K @afbjorklund @alexandear @apachex692 @arixmkii @cakemanny @jandubois @jonas-peter @kairveeehh @liangyuanpeng @nirs @shenki @songponssw @unsuman @ycdzj

Hint for package maintainers

Starting with v1.1, the official binary packages of Lima are split to two files for the each of the host OS and the architectures to save the disk space:

  1. lima-<VERSION>-Darwin-arm64.tar.gz: (Built with make native)
  • The core components (bin/lima, bin/limactl, share/lima/templates, ...)
  • The guest agent for the native architecture (share/lima/lima-guestagent.Linux-aarch64.gz)
  1. lima-additional-guestagents-<VERSION>-Darwin-arm64.tar.gz: (Built with make additional-guestagents)
  • The guest agents for emulating non-native architectures (share/lima/lima-guestagent.Linux-{armv7l,ppc64le,riscv64,s390x,x86_64}.gz))

For compatibility reason, make still builds the guest agents for all the architectures by default.

Package maintainers are suggested to split their lima package to lima (make native) and lima-additional-guestagents (make additional-guestagents).

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/15146665761

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 9c8da69033986ae8f1e501de6757676d83fee8b1a2412cf1d289ac30b42beb78 .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

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v1.1.0-rc.0

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Hint for package maintainers

Starting with v1.1, the official binary packages of Lima are split to two files for the each of the host OS and the architectures to save the disk space:

  1. lima-<VERSION>-Darwin-arm64.tar.gz: (Built with make native)
  • The core components (bin/lima, bin/limactl, share/lima/templates, ...)
  • The guest agent for the native architecture (share/lima/lima-guestagent.Linux-aarch64.gz)
  1. lima-additional-guestagents-<VERSION>-Darwin-arm64.tar.gz: (Built with make additional-guestagents)
  • The guest agents for emulating non-native architectures (share/lima/lima-guestagent.Linux-{armv7l,ppc64le,riscv64,s390x,x86_64}.gz))

For compatibility reason, make still builds the guest agents for all the architectures by default.

Package maintainers are suggested to split their lima package to lima (make native) and lima-additional-guestagents (make additional-guestagents).

Changes

  • Build system:
    • Split lima-additional-guestagents-*.tar.gz from lima-.tar.gz` (#3503)
    • Set CONFIG_GUESTAGENT_COMPRESS=y by default (#3529)
  • YAML:
  • QEMU:
    • Support DragonflyBSD hosts (#3356, thanks to @tuxillo)
    • Support S390X guests (#3319)
    • Support PPC64LE guests (#3488)
    • TCG: change the default CPU from qemu64 (x86-64 v1) to max (#3487)
    • Bump up the minimum QEMU version to v8.2.1 on ARM Mac. On Linux/x86_64, QEMU v6.2.0 is still supported. (#3491)
  • WSL2: lots of improvements (several PRs, thanks to @arixmkii)
  • Port forwarding: enable faster gRPC implementation by default (#3046)
  • limactl CLI:
  • Rootless Containers: Allow UID >= 524288 (#3435)
  • nerdctl: Update from v2.0.4 to v2.1.1. (#3483, #3534)
    See also the release notes in v2.0.5 and v2.1.0.
  • Templates:
    • ubuntu-25.04: New template (#3445).
      The default template still refers to Ubuntu 24.10, as ubuntu-25.04 needs
      the very recent release of macOS on Intel Mac by default (see the note below).
    • fedora-42: New template (#3434)
    • linuxbrew: New template (#3454)
    • almalinux-kitten-10: New template (#3084, th 6D38 anks to @afbjorklund)
    • oraclelinux-8: Fix virtiofs support (#3441)

Note

On Intel Mac with --vm-type=vz, macOS 15.5 or later is needed to boot ubuntu-25.04 and fedora-42

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/26?closed=1
Thanks to @KGB33 @Nino-K @afbjorklund @alexandear @apachex692 @arixmkii @cakemanny @jandubois @jonas-peter @kairveeehh @liangyuanpeng @nirs @shenki @songponssw @unsuman

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/15014845820

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is 9819732a0d6b1545a82419c9debc2144a131c33a4df4da8f8a040e16ee96861a .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

Contributors

jandubois, tuxillo, and 16 other contributors
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Changes

  • YAML: support inheritance (#3072, thanks to @jandubois)
  • QEMU:
  • WSL2: lots of improvements (several PRs, thanks to @arixmkii)
  • Port forwarding: enable faster gRPC implementation by default (#3046)
  • limactl CLI:
  • Rootless Containers:
    • Allow UID >= 524288 (#3435)
  • Templates:
    • Add fedora-42 (#3434). NOTE: known to be incompatible with vz on Intel Mac (#3334)

Full changes: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/milestone/26?closed=1
Thanks to @KGB33 @Nino-K @alexandear @apachex692 @arixmkii @jandubois @kairveeehh @nirs @suryaaprakassh @tatucosmin @tuxillo @unsuman

Usage

[macOS]$ limactl create
[macOS]$ limactl start
...
INFO[0029] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.

[macOS]$ lima uname
Linux

The binaries were built automatically on GitHub Actions.
The build log is available for 90 days: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/actions/runs/14506898171

The sha256sum of the SHA256SUMS file itself is faf7231bcd9b7fd715074dbd18b9b970e72c503e9f61a2fcc9a36bbfb1c67f1c .

Release manager: @AkihiroSuda

Contributors

jandubois, tuxillo, and 11 other contributors
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