lima VS colima

Compare lima vs colima and see what are their differences.

lima

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

colima

Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup (by abiosoft)
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lima colima
105 110
13,806 16,369
2.4% -
9.7 8.2
7 days ago 10 days ago
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Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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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.

colima

Posts with mentions or reviews of colima. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.

What are some alternatives?

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

multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

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

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

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

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

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

rd - Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop

rancher - Complete container management platform