Can anyone tell me what image/os is being used for lima when running on OSX M1?

RD uses the alpine-lima ISO corresponding to the host arch (aarch64 on M1) on macOS and Linux.

Hmm...K...Is it possible to change the image that is used?

Probably not; why would you want to?

I think there may be something going on with k3s that might be causing me headache's (TCP Timeouts, Handshake Failures, Etc). I originally thought it was related to the Cisco VPN on my work laptop, so I setup a POC using K3os on another external vm. When I connected, I suddenly started getting the same errors far more frequently (as in every couple of seconds if I simply did

watch kubectl get pod

). After that failed, I setup a new VM using ubuntu server using the 'lightweight' install and went with their self installed version of microk8s. When I connected to this instead, the errors have gone away on both my personal and work laptops. The only issue I'm having now is that running the afore mentioned command is extremely slow when I'm connected to the vpn on my work laptop. Once I disconnect, it seems to be running fine. I was thinking if possible, I'd like to try using this same style 'setup' via rancher-desktop to see if this takes care of the rest of my issues.

When you say "external VM" and "new VM", are these VMs running on the same machine, and are they managed by lima/qemu, or something else?

I mean that I am pointing to a completely different computer on my network that has a VM running on it.

Oh, that's a lot of additional changes, so hard to pin down the different behaviour to a particular change

Yes, I agree. That's why I was hoping to try and use RD with lima, but use a different base image to see if the problem was replicated if I simply used a different OS for the base image.

We have different templates for this in Lima, so you could experiment with lima directly instead of using RD.

Do you have any documentation on how I might go about doing this?

Not really, but start with the examples in https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/tree/master/examples

Will Do, Thank You

You can see both a

k3s

and a

k8s

template, the later using

kubeadm