I posted before about not being able to run `docker pull xyz rancher-users #rancher-desktop

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better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 3:44 PM

I posted before about not being able to run

docker pull xyz

.. i was getting timeouts. it looked like DNS wasn’t happy and i fixed it , but now I’m having a different problem. It looks like

limactl

is talking to a different install of lima.. is that possible? I’m assuming

limactl

using a socket to work similar to

docker

.. I say this because rancher started up a lima vm, which i can see with this

ps aux | grep qemu

shows that vm is listening on

-netdev user,id=net0,net=192.168.5.0/24,dhcpstart=192.168.5.15,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:54931-:22

when i try to ssh to that it asks for a password. Is this the lima vm ?

the

serial.log

file shows this at the end, which seems wrong

lima-rancher-desktop login:

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 3:48 PM

you may need to adjust your LIMA_HOME variable as you swap between the two sceanrios

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 3:49 PM

if using rancher’s lima.. where is that ?

currently, i was using ~/.lima

looksl ike ~/Library/Application\ Support/rancher-desktop/lima/

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 3:50 PM

~/Library/Application\ Support/rancher-desktop/lima/0

yup

guessing .lima is superseding what rancher is doing

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 3:51 PM

now I’m really confused 🙃 when i change to that, it doenst show anything running

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 3:51 PM

if you run rdctl shell what happens

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 3:52 PM

i shell into

lima-rancher-desktop

what is this voodoo ?

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 3:52 PM

well thats their app to make some of the background stuff easier

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 3:52 PM

and also, thanks for pointing me to that

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 3:53 PM

https://docs.rancherdesktop.io/references/rdctl-command-reference/

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 3:53 PM

so that the vm .. i dont understand why

limactl ls

doesnt show the vm thats running

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 3:53 PM

you mean set the env variable?

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 3:54 PM

$ echo $LIMA_HOME
~/Library/Application Support/rancher-desktop/lima/_config/0

$ ./limactl ls
WARN[0000] No instance found. Run `limactl start` to create an instance.
NAME    STATUS    SSH    ARCH    CPUS    MEMORY    DISK    DIR

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 3:55 PM

hmm thinking

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 3:55 PM

oh wait..

trying to “fix things” .. i’ve got 2 rancher-desktop installed.. 1.2.1 and 1.3.0 is there a chance there’s a different LIMA_HOME from

1.3.0

?? mabe ~/.rd

hmm, doenst seem like it

rdctl is rancher 1.3.0 rdctl

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 3:58 PM

so seeing something diff

limactl ls
NAME       STATUS     SSH            ARCH      CPUS    MEMORY    DISK      DIR
default    Stopped    127.0.0.1:0    x86_64    4       4GiB      100GiB

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 3:58 PM

what’s your LIMA_HOME ?

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 3:59 PM

LIMA_HOME=~/Library/Application\ Support/rancher-desktop/lima limactl ls 
NAME    STATUS     SSH                ARCH      CPUS    MEMORY    DISK      DIR
0       Stopped    127.0.0.1:51339    x86_64    2       4GiB      100GiB

now i don’t know if rancher will respect the env var, but I have a ~/.lima and RD seems to find it’s lima config correctly

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 4:22 PM

rdctl

- i dont know what exactly its doing but thats what i’ve been looking for for 2 days. thank you @wide-mechanic-33041 for the pointer. i appreciate it

wide-mechanic-33041

08/01/2022, 4:44 PM

yeah ideally you shouldn’t need to use limactl directly for RD stuff

better-fountain-25714

08/01/2022, 11:56 PM

Agree, but dns entries aren't resolving so would like to change lima.yaml and can't when I don't know where ite coming from

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