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limactl-menu: add a form for creating new instances - #5629
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Press `c` or F7 in the instance list (or "Create Instance" in the empty state) to open a form for the instance name, template, CPUs, memory, disk, VM type, and whether to start the instance after creation. Empty fields fall back to the template defaults. The other `limactl create` flags (mounts, networks, port forwards, `--set`, `--param`, etc.) are available in the "Details" section, which is hidden by default. Its fields are generated from the flag definitions of `limactl create`, and the description of the focused field is shown below the form. To minimize free-text input, the values are chosen from dropdowns whenever the choices are known: the shell completion values of the flags, the drivers, and the image variants of the selected template. "Other..." in a dropdown allows entering a value that is not in the list. "Create" runs `limactl start` (or `limactl create`) with the corresponding flags. "Edit" opens an editor for the template YAML with the form values applied, and then creates the instance from the edited YAML. In both cases, the menu is suspended while limactl is running, and the new instance is selected when returning to the menu. The form can be navigated with the arrow keys as well as with Tab: Up/Down move between the fields and the buttons (except in an open dropdown list, and except between the lines of a text area), and Left/Right move between the buttons. The single-key shortcuts of the instance list are now only handled while the list has the focus, so that they do not interfere with typing into the form. Fixes lima-vm#5595 Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda <akihiro.suda.cz@hco.ntt.co.jp>
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What This PR Changes
Add a form for creating new instances.
Linked Issue (Required in most cases)
Closes #5595
How I Tested This
Manually ran
limactl menuAI Usage
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context)