command alias not found

[austinhallett]

Description

Testing creating lima aliases for my team, following https://lima-vm.io/docs/usage/ #Creating Custom Aliases
the limactl binary is unable to locate the executable.

/usr/local/bin/limactl-code

#!/usr/bin/env bash

code --folder-uri vscode-remote://ssh-remote+lima-default/home/austinhallett.linux

Definitely in my path

➜ which limactl-code
/usr/local/bin/limactl-code

Definitely executable

~
➜ stat /usr/local/bin/limactl-code
16777230 53274540 -rwxr-xr-x 1 austinhallett staff 0 104 "Sep  5 10:23:55 2025" "Sep  5 10:23:38 2025" "Sep  5 10:31:49 2025" "Sep  5 10:23:38 2025" 4096 8 0 /usr/local/bin/limactl-code

But not located by limactl

~
➜ limactl code
FATA[0000] unknown command "code" for "limactl"

Did you mean this?
        copy
        clone

Version

~
➜ limactl --version
limactl version 1.2.1

➜ sw_vers
ProductName:            macOS
ProductVersion:         15.6.1
BuildVersion:           24G90

[AkihiroSuda]

You need Lima v2 (alpha release soon).
This version limitation is being documented in

• limactl help and info flag should show available plugins #3973

[austinhallett]

Got it, thanks. Looking forward to v2 😃

[AkihiroSuda]

FYI, just released v2.0.0-alpha.0
https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/releases/tag/v2.0.0-alpha.0