Lima Is Probably The Best Virtual Machine I've Ever Used

Supercharge your security with Twingate:

✅ Zero To KNOWING Kubernetes in Under 90 Minutes:

LimaVM is a fantastic framework that launches templated VMs, automatically mapping local ports, working directory and even home dir to the VM making development a sweet breeze!

[niksingh]

Now, this is the type of content I want to be in my yt's homepage.
I love that you share these types of nice tools regularly that you find much useful.

[lolikpof]

I completely fail to see the point of this for non-macOS. How is a VM faster than Docker.. when it also uses docker? The video isn't very clear about the "benefits" of this tool. Only thing I see is that it automatically mounts your home and does port forwarding, but how is that any better than distrobox, which lets you run any distro as a docker container (minimal footprint) and also does the mounting and forwarding. Can't see how a VM is supposed to be faster than a normal container

[loo_]

I’ve missed the devops content! I would love to see content on building lightweight containers using alpine, distroless and scratch. I would also be interested in how to define a flake to declare a nix-shell environment for a project. thanks omar!

[Mutombo]

Sounds interesting from a Mac, windows perspective. But for Linux it's just another layer of complexity.

[flamendless]

A very complex setup to solve ligma lol

[qweasd-ll]

multipass is also nice. it is also available for mac

[kaiowasdeath]

I replaced docker desktop with Colima years ago. Never going back.

[vikaspoddar]

Man, I was waiting for your tutorial on lima

[echobucket]

People who think Docker requires a VM, are using Windows or macOS. Just run Linux and you don't need any VMs. Docker is just a set of tools around the Linux kernel's built in technologies...

[jamesnguyen]

Lima use to be more difficult to use and setup, which was why Colima was created and based on top of Lima. Do you think there's a need for Colima anymore these days?

[lemonplz]

very similar to orbstack, another cool tool to optimize docker on mac

[UIM_OSRS]

What is the keyboard and switches you’re using in this video? Doesn’t seem like either keyboards from your hardware playlist

[cheebadigga]

Wait until he finds out about Incus and that it works with Colima/Lima even on macOS lol

[sailorgreg]

I would very much like your take on the macOS 26 built-in containers when the dust settles. I wonder how they manage RAM for example if every container is a totally separate VM. Also thanks far all the awesome and actually helpful content! 🫡

[DanelonNicolas]

56k subs? 204 likes? wow. you deserve more! I'm in man. Awesome video:D

[danilo]

It looks very similar to distrobox right?

[swytchyglytch]

Sounds like a slightly fancier version of FreeBSD's bhyv hypervisor 😛

[Dharmic_developer]

I use multipass to run my vms how is this different can someone explain?

[etowett]

Interesting. What terminal and key bindings do you use? Seems fancy!

[yakmage]

How exactly is docker more overhead than a vm?