LFX Mentorship 2026

This year Lima participated in the LFX Mentorship 2026 Term 2 program (June – August 2026), and this term is currently under progress. The work is tracked under the umbrella issue #4907. We are thrilled to announce Mie Tokunaga (@mie313 on GitHub) as our selected mentee for this term. Huge thanks to her for driving the Windows guests development. Also many thanks to Arnav Sharma (@Shardz4 on GitHub) whose earlier proof of concept for `swtpm` integration #5079 laid the groundwork for the TPM feature.

The main goal of the mentorship program was to add Windows Guest support. Now that our mentee has successfully implemented this, their focus has shifted to ensuring a seamless Lima experience on Windows hosts. This includes automating Windows host configurations and eliminating dependencies so that Lima “just works” out of the box. A key deliverable is the complete removal of the `cygpath. exe` dependency, so that Lima on Windows no longer requires Cygwin, MSYS2, or Git for Windows to be installed.

The secondary phase aims to explore and evaluate native virtualization support for Windows hosts. This includes researching the trade-offs between Hyper-V and the Host Compute System (HCS, used by WSL2).