This repository provides the templates to easily set up a podman runtime environment using lima. It uses the alpine-lima image. Some settings in these templates are derived from the original podman template.

Usage

This template can be run directly. You can start rootless and rootful podman environments with the following commands:

Start the rootless podman environment:

limactl start https://raw.githubusercontent.com/na0x2c6/lima-podman/main/podman.yaml

Start the rootful podman environment:

limactl start https://raw.githubusercontent.com/na0x2c6/lima-podman/main/podman-rootful.yaml

If necessary, you can enable vz environments and rosetta by making the following settings in ~/.lima/_config/default.yaml (this is just using the features of lima and lima-alpine, and nothing special is being done in this repository):

vmType: "vz"
mountType: "virtiofs"

rosetta:
  enabled: true
  binfmt: true

networks:
  - vzNAT: true

You can utilize the edge version of Podman by configuring the LIMA_ALPINE_PODMAN_REPOSITORY environment variable as follows:

env:
  LIMA_ALPINE_PODMAN_REPOSITORY: https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community

Misc

For stability, this repository includes the following features:

• Increases the version of qemu in the template script.
• Sets the podman database backend to sqlite. This was supported in podman 4.5.0.

The rootless template includes installing pasta and setting default_rootless_network_cmd="pasta".

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, the same as the lima-vm project.