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What is Multipass?

Multipass is a lightweight VM manager for Linux, Windows and macOS. It's designed

for developers who want a fresh Ubuntu environment with a single command. It uses

KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and HyperKit on macOS to run the VM with minimal

overhead. It can also use VirtualBox on Windows and macOS.

Multipass will fetch images for you and keep them up to date.

Since it supports metadata for cloud-init, you can simulate a small cloud

deployment on your laptop or workstation.

Project Status

Service

Status

Install Multipass

On Linux it's available as a snap:

sudo snap install multipass

For macOS, you can download the installers from GitHub or use Homebrew:

# Note, this may require you to enter your password for some sudo operations during install

brew cask install multipass

On Windows, download the installer from GitHub.

Usage

Find available images

$ multipass find

Image Aliases Version Description

core core16 20200213 Ubuntu Core 16

core18 20200210 Ubuntu Core 18

16.04 xenial 20200721 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

18.04 bionic,lts 20200717 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

20.04 focal 20200720 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

daily:20.10 devel,groovy 20200721 Ubuntu 20.10

Launch a fresh instance of the current Ubuntu LTS

$ multipass launch ubuntu

Launching dancing-chipmunk...

Downloading Ubuntu 18.04 LTS..........

Launched: dancing chipmunk

Check out the running instances

$ multipass list

Name State IPv4 Release

dancing-chipmunk RUNNING 10.125.174.247 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

live-naiad RUNNING 10.125.174.243 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

snapcraft-asciinema STOPPED -- Ubuntu Snapcraft builder for Core 18

Learn more about the VM instance you just launched

$ multipass info dancing-chipmunk

Name: dancing-chipmunk

State: RUNNING

IPv4: 10.125.174.247

Release: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

Image hash: 19e9853d8267 (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)

Load: 0.97 0.30 0.10

Disk usage: 1.1G out of 4.7G

Memory usage: 85.1M out of 985.4M

Connect to a running instance

$ multipass shell dancing-chipmunk

Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-42-generic x86_64)

...

Don't forget to logout (or Ctrl-D) or you may find yourself heading all the

way down the Inception levels... ;)

Run commands inside an instance from outside

$ multipass exec dancing-chipmunk -- lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

Release: 18.04

Codename: bionic

Stop an instance to save resources

$ multipass stop dancing-chipmunk

Delete the instance

$ multipass delete dancing-chipmunk

It will now show up as deleted:

Name State IPv4 Release

snapcraft-asciinema STOPPED -- Ubuntu Snapcraft builder for Core 18

dancing-chipmunk DELETED -- Not Available

And when you want to completely get rid of it:

$ multipass purge

Get help

multipass help

multipass help

Get involved!

Here's a set of steps to build and run your own build of Multipass:

Build Dependencies

cd

apt install devscripts equivs

mk-build-deps -s sudo -i

Building

cd

git submodule update --init --recursive

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ../

make

Running Multipass daemon and client

First, install multipass's runtime dependencies. On amd64 architecture, you can achieve that with:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install libgl1 libpng16-16 libqt5core5a libqt5gui5 \

libqt5network5 libqt5widgets5 libxml2 libvirt0 dnsmasq-base \

dnsmasq-utils qemu-system-x86 qemu-utils libslang2 iproute2 \

iptables iputils-ping libatm1 libxtables12 xterm

Then run multipass's daemon:

sudo /build/bin/multipassd &

Copy the desktop file multipass clients expect to find in your home:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/multipass/

cp /data/multipass.gui.autostart.desktop ~/.local/share/multipass/

Optionally, enable auto-complete in bash:

source /completions/bash/multipass

Finally, use multipass's clients:

/build/bin/multipass launch --name foo # CLI client

/build/bin/multipass.gui # GUI client

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