How to change colima config default image

[tibbus]

Description

I just installed colima on macOS and I have an issue that it cannot download the image when I do "colima start":

    failed to download "https://github.com/abiosoft/colima-core/releases/download/ve.6.8-2/ubuntu-23.1
O-minimal-cloudimg-arm64.qcow2": Get "https://github.com/abiosoft/colima-core/releases/download/v0.6

This is happening because this is a work laptop and due to security reasons, I am not allowed to download it via the Terminal. I can download this file in the browser.

How can I change the colima config to use a local image instead of downloading this one?

I've tried to add something like this to .colima/default/colima.yaml but still wants to download it:

    images:
- location: *./ubuntu-23.10-minimal-cloudimg-amd64. raw°
arch: x86_64°
vmType: 'vz'
mountType: 'virtiofs'

Any ideas?

Version

colima version HEAD-9b0809d
git commit: 9b0809d
limactl version 0.20.1
gemu-img version 8.2.1
Copyright (c) 2003-2023 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

Operating System

• macOS Intel <= 13 (Ventura)
• macOS Intel >= 14 (Sonoma)
• Apple Silicon <= 13 (Ventura)
• Apple Silicon >= 14 (Sonoma)
• Linux

Output of colima status

colima is not running

Reproduction Steps

Expected behaviour

No response

Additional context

No response

[roman-kiselenko]

It looks like a bug in colima, the lima handle location property and allow user to specify the img location.

cat ~/.colima/_lima/colima-docker/lima.yaml | grep location
    - location: ~/Downloads/data
➜  ~ colima start docker --edit
INFO[0000] editing in nvim from $EDITOR environment variable
INFO[0002] starting colima [profile=docker]
INFO[0002] runtime: docker
INFO[0003] starting ...                                  context=vm
> Using the existing instance "colima-docker"
> Starting the instance "colima-docker" with VM driver "qemu"
> QEMU binary "/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-aarch64" seems properly signed with the "com.apple.security.hypervisor" entitlement
> "Attempting to download the image" arch=aarch64 digest="sha512:00e3339bdebd98c3e003570ffb3ad4b01630fe4fcecd15061d5d58e14c07b211c718ed20fa3e4cce227d3b1c59fd98241eaa3e9e2cdfa04acfe32b4bc385428c" location="https://github.com/abiosoft/colima-core/releases/download/v0.6.8-2/ubuntu-23.10-minimal-cloudimg-arm64.qcow2"
> Downloading the image (ubuntu-23.10-minimal-cloudimg-arm64.qcow2)

xref lima-vm/lima#2226

[roman-kiselenko]

Related #985 🤔