Colima mac - auto-start

colima-start

#!/bin/bash

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

function shutdown() {
  colima stop
  exit 0
}

trap shutdown SIGTERM
trap shutdown SIGKILL
trap shutdown SIGINT

# wait until colima is running
while true; do
  colima status &>/dev/null
  if [[ \$? -eq 0 ]]; then
    break;
  fi

  colima start
  sleep 5
done

tail -f /dev/null &
wait \$!

com.github.abiosoft.colima.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.github.abiosoft.colima</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/opt/local/bin/colima-start</string>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
  </dict>
</plist>

gistfile1.txt

alias colimaStop="launchctl unload -w $HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.abiosoft.colima.plist"
alias colimaStart="launchctl load -w $HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.abiosoft.colima.plist"

Mac 13.5.1 seemed to have issues - found this bug:

abiosoft/colima#746

TL;DR:

brew reinstall -f --force-bottle qemu