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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon abiosoft

How do I completely remove the VM that colima uses on MacOS?

Open bmichaud opened this issue 3 years ago • 5 comments

I am trying to "clean up" my VM of all the certs I have in there now, so I can make sure I know which certs at which locations in what cert format actually fixed a x509: certificate signed by unknown authority error for docker builds. (Still can't do direct docker pull from registry-1.docker.io, BTW, which is puzzling.)

However, colima delete does not seem to delete the vm, and I know this, because I was doing colima ssh and checking the /etc/docker/certs.d directory and all the certs I have added from the beginning of time remain there even if I forcibly delete them:

  1. colima start
  2. colima ssh
  3. find /etc/docker/certs.d (lists all the certs I added ever)
  4. find /Home/myname/.docker/certs.d (lists only those certs I have in my home right now-- its a volume mount, I know.)
  5. sudo rm -rf /etc/docker/certs.d/* (deletes all the certs that are in there)
  6. exit
  7. colima delete
  8. colima start
  9. colima ssh
  10. find /etc/docker/certs.d (lists all the files from the beginning of time again) Even though most of the *.crt files in my ~/.docker/certs.d directory are no longer there.

Where is the secret location of this VM file, so I can delete it and reload the VM from the downloaded ISO file?

bmichaud avatar Apr 14 '22 21:04 bmichaud

@bmichaud the certs are copied into the VM on startup, it's not a direct link. So yeah, it will keep appearing at /etc/docker/certs.d in the VM.

abiosoft avatar Apr 14 '22 21:04 abiosoft

@abiosoft , I have only two certs in my ~/.docker/certs.d area, but, when the VM starts up, there are like 12 in /etc/docker/certs.d on the VM even after a colima delete. That is why I feel like the prior state is preserved in a cached image somewhere. The source ISO that I donwloaded and refer to locally in the override.yaml is unchanged. Where is the saved copy, so I can start from scratch?

bmichaud avatar Apr 15 '22 14:04 bmichaud

I have tried to do this:

  • colima delete
  • limactl delete --force colima then empty trash (found that the ~/.lima/colima container directory gets removed with this) Either way, the old certs still get preserved.

bmichaud avatar Apr 15 '22 20:04 bmichaud

For anyone coming across this in futre: colima delete deletes ~/.lima/colima just fine in the latest version, I did not need to run other commands.

Can't say anything about old certs

mandrasch avatar Oct 10 '23 16:10 mandrasch