colima start appears to overwrite lima.yaml with defaults at each launch

[spkane]

I am trying to get shared networking setup (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/network.md#managed-vmnet-networks-via-vde_vmnet), but each time I add a few lines to ~/.lima/colima/lima.yaml and then run colima start --cpu 8 --memory 8 --disk 100 --runtime containerd --with-kubernetes those lines vanish and the files looks exactly like it did before my edits.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is colima clobbering this?

[jandubois]

Or is colima clobbering this?

It probably is. Put your settings into an override.yaml file as I explained in #105 (comment).

These settings will be merged with the lima.yaml content when the VM is started.

The merged state is not visible to limactl ls, even though they were applied; I've created lima-vm/lima#510 to (eventually) deal with this.

[spkane]

Great. Thank you. I will give that a try.

[spkane]

That appears to have worked. Thanks!

[abiosoft]

@spkane that is the recommended way as colima dynamically generates the lima config on each start.

Thanks again @jandubois.