Cannot download image; how do I set the proxy?

[mwidjaja1]

Hey gang 👋🏼! I'm trying to run limactl start but when I do so, I get a failed to download <insert OS image here> type error where it says read: connection reset by peer.

This isn't too surprising because I'm required to run behind an http/https proxy that is set in my terminal with an env $HTTP_PROXY and $HTTPS_PROXY variable. My question is, how do I get this proxy information to lima so I can get these images installed?

Thanks!

[afbjorklund]

The environment variables are called http_proxy and HTTPS_PROXY, confusingly enough.

EDIT: it should accept either case of the variables, besides the historical ones

[afbjorklund]

I think they go in env for the VM, or otherwise in the login scripts or container run

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/v0.16.0/examples/default.yaml#L383_L390

[mwidjaja1]

Hmm, unfortunately, I don't think that worked. I think my issue is that the core of the problem is not the proxy inside of my container, but rather the actual Go Downloader at

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/9d29da396c164fea261bc547b4537d470aa3a824/pkg/downloader/downloader.go

This downloader, which downloads my images, doesn't appear to have any place for me to inject my proxy. Without it, Lima is unable to download the image required to initialize my container. Would you have an idea where this guy gets its network info from?

Thanks!

[afbjorklund]

Maybe it needs a special call, there seems to be some net/http ProxyFromEnvironment that could be relevant to this issue.

Can you open a GitHub issue for it ?

[afbjorklund]

Did not see any new issues, not sure if the problem is still there or if code is still needed.

[afbjorklund]

HTTPS_PROXY=http://localhost:3128 limactl start template://debian has no issues contacting squid

so the default http.Transport should already be using the proxy variables from the environment...

[Govindaraju]

I m facing the same issue whilst starting colima. Here are the details. Please could you suggest the way around it ?

colima version 0.5.5
limactl version 0.16.0

Actual error message
failed to download "https://github.com/abiosoft/alpine-lima/releases/download/colima-v0.5.5/alpine-lima-clm-3.18.0-aarch64.iso": Get "https://github.com/abiosoft/alpine-lima/releases/download/colima-v0.5.5/alpine-lima-clm-3.18.0-aarch64.iso": dial tcp: lookup github.com: no such host

We are using a web proxy as well.

I tried injecting them through environment variables.

[afbjorklund]

Sounds like an issue for colima

[Govindaraju]

Hi Looks like my proxy password had % as one of the special characters and colima code didnt like it. Can you please check that once ? Regards Govind

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[jandubois]

Try replacing the % with %25 (so x%y would become x%25y).

[jandubois]

If that doesn't fix it, maybe report your issue on the colima repo instead?