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@AkihiroSuda AkihiroSuda added this to the v2.0.0 milestone Oct 10, 2025
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RFC: this should be under https://lima-vm.io/docs/usage/ ("Must read") or https://lima-vm.io/docs/config/ ("Read on demand")

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Having SSH on a separate page looks much better

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afbjorklund commented Oct 11, 2025

Maybe we should mention explicitely that you can read the ssh.config file?

Some older software like podman and whatever the IDE was, didn't support -F

But you could still copy only the information that was required, into their config:

    Host lima-default
      IdentityFile "/Users/example/.lima/_config/user"
      User example
      Hostname 127.0.0.1
      Port 60022

Like a last resort, similar to the old show-ssh?

I also linked ssh://[email protected]:60022 in the GUI (but that requires DotSSH)

lima-gui-instance-ssh

loadDotSSHPubKeys: true (or use ssh-add)

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Maybe we should mention explicitely that you can read the ssh.config file?

Isn't that too obvious?

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afbjorklund commented Oct 11, 2025

Isn't that too obvious?

It could very well be, yes.

The assumption is that if you don't know SSH, you would use lima. And if you do use SSH, you are an expert.

These were novice users, that were stuck with a tool that didn't support the simple config but required setup...

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done

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