How to connect lima linux instance to LAN network - bridge

[JCzz]

Hi

I am running Lima Linux on MacOS M1

Do you know how I can create a bridge, to make lima instance show up on LAN network?

Regards
Christian

[AkihiroSuda]

# Install socket_vmnet
brew install socket_vmnet

# Set up the sudoers file for launching socket_vmnet from Lima
limactl sudoers >etc_sudoers.d_lima
sudo install -o root etc_sudoers.d_lima /etc/sudoers.d/lima

And add the following lines to the yaml (limactl edit)

networks:
  - lima: bridged

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/network.md

[JCzz]

Thanks @AkihiroSuda

I had to add to ~/.lima/_config/networks.yaml:

paths:
  socketVMNet: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/socket_vmnet/1.1.2/bin/socket_vmnet
  vdeSwitch: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/vde/2.3.3/bin/vde_switch

And did:
limactl sudoers | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/lima

limactl start --name default

? Creating an instance "default2"  [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
  Proceed with the current configuration
> Open an editor to review or modify the current configuration
  Choose another example (docker, podman, archlinux, fedora, ...)
  Exit

I added:

networks:
  - lima: bridged

Then in the Lima default vm, looked for ip using ip a:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:55:55:ae:72:34 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp0s2
    inet 192.168.5.15/24 metric 100 brd 192.168.5.255 scope global dynamic eth0
       valid_lft 86062sec preferred_lft 86062sec
    inet6 fec0::5055:55ff:feae:7234/64 scope site dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
       valid_lft 86063sec preferred_lft 14063sec
    inet6 fe80::5055:55ff:feae:7234/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: lima0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:55:55:ce:8d:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp0s3
    inet 192.168.1.130/24 metric 100 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic lima0
       valid_lft 86062sec preferred_lft 86062sec
    inet6 fe80::5055:55ff:fece:8dab/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Then in lima default I run:
python3 -m http.server 80

Couldn't connect to server

And from host - eth0 & lima0:
curl 192.168.1.130
curl 192.168.5.15
curl 192.168.5.255

Not even curl 127.0.0.1:60022 from:

limactl list
NAME       STATUS     SSH                VMTYPE    ARCH       CPUS    MEMORY    DISK      DIR
default    Running    127.0.0.1:60022    qemu      aarch64    4       4GiB      100GiB    ~/.lima/default