Multipass launch

The multipass launch command without any argument will create and start a new instance based on the default image, using a random generated name:

https://multipass.run/docs/launch-command

multipass launch --name ubuntu-vm
launch failed: failed to download from 'http://cloud- images.ubuntu.com/releases/server/releases/bionic/release-20200129.1/ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img': Network timeout

multipass launch --cpus 2 --mem 8G --disk 25G --name MY_NEW_VM
multipass launch --cpus 2 --mem 8G --name MY_NEW_VM
multipass launch --cpus 2 --name MY_NEW_VM

• To find available images: multipass find

Related commands

• multipass find
• virt-install

See also

• Multipass, MULTIPASS_STORAGE, /Library/Logs/Multipass/multipassd.log, /var/run/multipass_socket, Multipass releases, multipassd
• Ubuntu, Ubuntu releases, snap, MAAS, PPA, Canonical Livepatch, Ubuntu Advantage, netplan, multipass, Landscape, Subiquity, lsb_release, Ubuntu MATE, Wayland