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Network

user-mode network (192.168.5.0/24)

By default Lima only enables the user-mode networking aka "slirp".

Guest IP (192.168.5.15)

The guest IP address is set to 192.168.5.15.

This IP address is not accessible from the host by design.

Use vde_vmnet to allow accessing the guest IP from the host and other guests.

Host IP (192.168.5.2)

The loopback addresses of the host is 192.168.5.2 and is accessible from the guest as host.lima.internal.

DNS (192.168.5.3)

The DNS.

vde_vmnet (192.168.105.0/24)

vde_vmnet is required for adding another guest IP that is accessible from the host and other guests.

To enable vde_vmnet (in addition the user-mode network), add the following lines to the YAML after installing vde_vmnet.

network:
  # The instance can get routable IP addresses from the vmnet framework using
  # https://github.com/lima-vm/vde_vmnet. Both vde_switch and vde_vmnet
  # daemons must be running before the instance is started. The interface type
  # (host, shared, or bridged) is configured in vde_vmnet and not lima.
  vde:
    # vnl (virtual network locator) points to the vde_switch socket directory,
    # optionally with vde:// prefix
    - vnl: "vde:///var/run/vde.ctl"
      # MAC address of the instance; lima will pick one based on the instance name,
      # so DHCP assigned ip addresses should remain constant over instance restarts.
      macAddress: ""
      # Interface name, defaults to "vde0", "vde1", etc.
      name: ""

The IP address range is typically 192.168.105.0/24, but depends on the configuration of vde_vmnet. See the documentation of vde_vmnet for further information.