MultipassIt is a lightweight virtual machine manager and an open source project launched by Ubuntuthe operating company . CanonicalThe operating environment supports Linux, Windows, macOS. On different operating systems, different virtualization technologies are used. LinuxUsed on , KVMused Windowon Hyper-V, macOSand used on to HyperKitrun VMs with minimal overhead and support simulating small clouds on laptops.
At the same time, Multipassa command line interface is provided to start and manage Linuxinstances. Downloading a brand new image takes seconds and is up and running within minutes VM.
Install Multipass on Linux
sudo snap install multipass
How to launch an LTS instance
Launch an instance (by default you'll get the current Ubuntu LTS)
multipass launch --name foo
Run the command in the instance, try running bash (logout or ctrl-d to exit)
multipass exec foo --lsb_release -a
View your instance
multipass list
Stop and start instances
multipass stop foo bar
multipass start foo
Clean out things you don’t need
multipass delete bar
multipass purge
help
multipass help
multipass help <command>