Difference between revisions of "Multipass"

Revision as of 17:19, 5 November 2021

wikipedia:multipass^[1] (December 2019 v1.0^[2]) allows to create and manage Ubuntu virtual machine instances on Linux, Windows and macOS. It uses KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and HyperKit on macOS, supported since July 2018^[3], to run the VM with minimal overhead. Since August 2020 (v1.4) it also included bridged networking support^[4].

multipass list
multipass connect
multipass start VM_NAME
multipass stop VM_NAME
multipass launch --name YourName^[5] (to create a new one vm)
- multipass launch --cpus 2 --name MY_NEW_VM
- multipass launch --cpus 2 --mem 8G --name MY_NEW_VM
multipass shell VM_NAME
multipass find
multipass info VM_INSTANCE_NAME
multipass delete VM_INSTANCE_NAME
multipass purge
multipass mount
multipass transfer (copy files between host and instances)
multipass set
aliases (Oct 2021)

Setting MULTIPASS_STORAGE system variable will change where data/images are stored since multipass 1.5.0 (October 2020)

As of October 2021 multipass do not allow for custom IP configuration https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1293
As of October 2021 multipass do not allow to rename instances https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/255
As of October 2021 multipass do now have port forwarding capabitilies. https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/309

Install and create you first Ubuntu VM with Multipass
Read Multipass releases/versions/Changelog
Modify number of CPU on an existing instance
Review most popular StackOverflow multipass questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/multipass?tab=Votes

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 <code>[[wikipedia:multipass]]</code><ref>https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/multipass</ref> (December [[2019]] v1.0<ref>https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-multipass-1-0-0-first-stable-release/13704</ref>) allows to create and manage  [[Ubuntu]] [[virtual machine]] instances on Linux, Windows and [[macOS]]. It uses [[KVM]] on Linux, [[Hyper-V]] on Windows and [[HyperKit]] on [[macOS]], supported since July 2018<ref>https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/multipass-now-available-for-macos/6824</ref>, to run the VM with minimal overhead. Since
 August 2020 (v1.4) it also included [[bridged networking]] support<ref>https://github.com/canonical/multipass/releases/tag/v1.4.0</ref>.