Lima v2.0: New features for secure AI workflows

What is Lima ? Updates in v2.0 GPU acceleration Model Context Protocol Other improvements Expanding the focus to hardening AI AI inside Lima AI outside Lima Getting started: AI inside Lima Posted on December 11, 2025 by Akihiro Suda, Lima Project Maintainer CNCF projects highlighted in this post On November 6th, the Lima project team shipped the second major release of Lima. In this release, the team are expanding the project focus to cover AI as well as containers. Lima (Linux Machines) is a command line tool to launch a local Linux virtual machine, with the primary focus on running containers on a laptop. The project began in May 2021, with the aim of promoting containerd including nerdctl (contaiNERD CTL) to Mac users. The project joined the CNCF in September 2022 as a Sandbox project, and was promoted to the Incubating level in October 2025. Through the growth of the project, the scope has expanded to support non-container workloads and non-macOS hosts too. See also: “ Lima becomes a CNCF incubating project ”. Lima now provides the plugin infrastructure that allows third-parties to implement new features without modifying Lima itself: VM driver plugins : for additional hypervisors. CLI plugins : for additional subcommands of the `limactl` command. URL scheme plugins : for additional URL schemes to be passed as `limactl create SCHEME:SPEC`. The plugin interfaces are still experimental and subject to change. The interfaces will be stabilized in future releases.