podman-desktop: Location of the default lima socket is wrong and provider status "unknown"

Bug description

It is looking for ~/.lima/podman-lima/sock/podman.sock, but the default location is ~/.lima/podman/sock/podman.sock

It would be nice if the LIMA_HOME environment variable was respected, as it can override the default HOME location.

Operating system

Ubuntu 20.04

Version

1.0.0

Steps to reproduce

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Relevant log output

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Additional context

It should also look for the presence of the limactl program, and use that to determine the version to show in the GUI.

$ limactl --version
limactl version 0.15.1

When the podman socket is missing, then the instance (virtual machine) is stopped. If it is present, it has been started:

$ limactl list podman
NAME      STATUS     SSH                VMTYPE    ARCH      CPUS    MEMORY    DISK      DIR
podman    Running    127.0.0.1:40361    qemu      x86_64    4       4GiB      100GiB    ~/.lima/podman

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created a year ago
Comments: 15 (13 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Thanks for the report @afbjorklund and the description of the workaround - as you mentioned in https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/issues/1081#issuecomment-1553288906 seems to be a regression.

Would you be interested to contribute? We would actually really like to work with you on improving the support of Lima.

slemeur on May 18, 2023