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_{macOS 26 or newer | Apple Silicon and Intel}

Guest tools and daemon

lmx and lmxd, the guest command and daemon for LimaNix. Inspect and maintain your NixOS development VM from the inside. Both are included in every LimaNix VM.

• Explore your environment. View VM status with lmx status and find commands provided by enabled modules with lmx help.
• Diagnose problems. Check guest health and network ports, and inspect daemon task logs.
• Manage system updates. lmxd builds system generations for the next boot, checks their health after restart and reclaims unused Nix store paths.
• Work across Mac and VM. Use the Mac clipboard through your terminal, link configured dotfiles and open named sessions through a configured provider.

Read the lmx guide and command reference. Release archives are available on GitHub Releases.

Development

Requires Task 3.53.1+ and Docker.

Run Rust tests with task ci/rust/test; use task -l to list checks and build commands.

Check Markdown with task ci/markdown/fmt; format it with task markdown/fix.

Contributing

See the contribution guide for issues, pull requests and releases, and the host contract for the JSON interface between the client and guest.