Alternative podman disk images for lima

[afbjorklund]

Here are some alternative images, if you want to compare with the default Ubuntu:

Fedora:
https://github.com/afbjorklund/fedora-lima/blob/main/fedora-podman.yaml

Alpine:
https://github.com/afbjorklund/lima/blob/nerdcore/examples/alpine-podman.yaml

There are some pros and cons of each, but one benefit of Alpine is the size of the ISO.

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EDIT: Should mention that alpine doesn't start the daemon by default, only the cli or root

lima-alpine-podman:/home/anders$ podman version
Version:      3.2.3
API Version:  3.2.3
Go Version:   go1.16.8
Git Commit:   b7fc5b608b641cd9b9aec2647f9236e31f8f3b27
Built:        Sat Sep 11 14:33:25 2021
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
lima-alpine-podman:/home/anders$ podman --remote version
Error: cannot connect to the Podman socket, please verify that Podman REST API service is running: Get "http://d/v3.2.3/libpod/_ping": dial unix ///tmp/podman-run-1000/podman/podman.sock: connect: no such file or directory

lima-alpine-podman:/home/anders$ sudo /etc/init.d/podman start
 * Configured as rootful service
 * /run/podman: creating directory
 * Starting Podman API service ...                                                                                                                  [ ok ]
lima-alpine-podman:/home/anders$ sudo podman --remote version
Client:
Version:      3.2.3
API Version:  3.2.3
Go Version:   go1.16.8
Git Commit:   b7fc5b608b641cd9b9aec2647f9236e31f8f3b27
Built:        Sat Sep 11 14:33:25 2021
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Server:
Version:      3.2.3
API Version:  3.2.3
Go Version:   go1.16.8
Git Commit:   b7fc5b608b641cd9b9aec2647f9236e31f8f3b27
Built:        Sat Sep 11 14:33:25 2021
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

The image is based on "alpine.yaml", and then sudo apk add podman (pre-installed)

[iongion]

Sure, I am busy at true job for the moment, but I will get on it this week! Thank you!

[iongion]

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