Customizable home directory

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Description

The current implementation uses the username with .linux suffix.
It would be nice to have a customizable home directory.

[dcitterio]

You could customize the Config location of Colima by setting COLIMA_HOME environment variable.

Check this section in the FAQ

or do you refer to something else?

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The home directory inside the container has .linux suffix.
You can see it here:

colima/app/app.go

Line 287 in 1f32bf2

workDir = "/home/" + username + ".linux"

>a@A ~$ colima start
INFO[0031] starting colima
>ls ~/../
a.linux

[jandubois]

I don't know if Colima gives you access to lima.yaml, but it is now possible to change the home directory location inside the VM (the default value is "/home/{{.User}}.linux"), e.g. with

user:
  home: "/home/{{.User}}"

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Colima rewrites lima.yaml. The changes are not saved.