lima VS UTM

Compare lima vs UTM and see what are their differences.

lima

Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers (by lima-vm)

UTM

Virtual machines for iOS and macOS (by utmapp)
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lima UTM
105 242
13,806 23,757
2.4% 3.0%
9.7 9.5
6 days ago 12 days ago
Go Swift
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

lima

Posts with mentions or reviews of lima. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

UTM

Posts with mentions or reviews of UTM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lima and UTM you can also consider the following projects:

colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS

Docker-OSX - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

minikube - Run Kubernetes locally

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

ish - Linux shell for iOS

rancher - Complete container management platform

Podman Desktop - Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes

podman-desktop - launch and setup vms for podman