Creating a #Fedora 44 VM cloud image with the ease of a container build

https://ducttape-vm.github.io/demo.html

using #cloudinit, #limavm, #ducttape and #machinefile

Ducttape VM demo

https://ducttape-vm.github.io

Build, run & share VM images like containers

#containers #limavm

Feel like working with containers, but your workloads run on real virtual machines.

I used Lima #limavm for the first time today, and am really impressed. Super easy to get going, shared mounts just work and the VM feels very snappy!

https://lima-vm.io/

Lima

Linux Machines Learn More What is Lima? Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding (similar to WSL2). Install Lima Get Lima Here Try Lima Get started with Lima Contributions welcome Join the Lima community Adopters Lima is a CNCF incubating project

Lima
If you use #limavm to build #linux stuff on a #mac, be careful - the #virtiofs driver is speedy but the case insensitivity of the underlying filesystem is also passed through. The kernel build does not like this.