QEMU

“qemu” option makes use of QEMU to run guest operating system.

“qemu” is the default driver for Linux hosts.

Recommended QEMU version:

  • v8.2.1 or later (macOS)
  • v6.2.0 or later (Linux)

An example configuration:

limactl start --vm-type=qemu
vmType: "qemu"

base:
- template://_images/ubuntu
- template://_default/mounts