Give Lima's autostart graceful shutdown time to finish - #184
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On SIGTERM, Lima's hostagent gracefully powers off the guest and waits up
to 30s for it to halt (pkg/driver/vz/vz_driver_darwin.go). But its autostart
plists set no ExitTimeOut, so launchd's 5s default SIGKILLs the hostagent
when the Mac shuts down --- force-killing the guest mid-flush, which corrupts
Git repos and drops recent writes.
Patch the embedded LaunchAgent/LaunchDaemon plist templates to set
ExitTimeOut=60 (>= the driver's 30s stop timeout) so the graceful stop can
complete during host shutdown.
To try it out:
# 1. Rebuild so the new limactl is on PATH:
home-manager switch --flake ~/github/samestep/env#samueles
# 2. Regenerate the installed plist (it does not update itself):
limactl autostart disable sandbox-arm64 && limactl autostart enable sandbox-arm64
# 3. Confirm it took (expect: exit timeout = 60):
launchctl print gui/$(id -u)/io.lima-vm.autostart.sandbox-arm64 | grep -i 'exit timeout'
# 4. After the next "Shut Down...", boot back up and, inside the guest, look
# for a full shutdown sequence (Stopping.../Unmounted/Power-Off) that was
# previously absent --- its span will often exceed the old 5s window:
journalctl -b -1 -o short-precise | tail -30
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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