Installation

Prerequisites

• A machine that can run Lima: macOS or Linux, with a working hypervisor (macOS has one built in; on Linux, Lima needs QEMU/KVM — see the Lima installation docs if limactl doesn't already work on your machine).
• Lima itself. You don't need to install it separately — Homebrew pulls it in as a dependency of the sand formula, below.

Install sand

sand ships as a prebuilt Homebrew formula (not a cask — deliberately, so the same install works on both macOS and Linux) from the lullabot/homebrew-sandbar tap:

brew install lullabot/sandbar/sand

That taps the repository and installs the formula in one step.

Verify it worked

sand version

Upgrading and removing

brew upgrade sand
brew uninstall sand   # does not delete your VMs; use `limactl delete <name>`