Multipass is a lightweight virtual machine manager for Linux, Windows and macOS. It is designed to create fresh Ubuntu environments with a single command, automatically downloads operating system images and supports cloud-init for reproducing cloud-style deployments on a local workstation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Launches ready-to-use Ubuntu virtual machines with a single command.
- Finds, downloads and updates available operating system images.
- Configures CPU cores, memory, storage and instance names.
- Uses KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and QEMU on macOS.
- Can use VirtualBox as an alternative backend on Windows and macOS.
- Customizes instances during creation using cloud-init.
- Opens interactive shells inside virtual machines.
- Executes commands inside an instance directly from the host.
- Starts, stops, suspends, restarts and deletes instances.
- Displays instance state, network addresses and resource usage.
- Mounts host directories inside instances.
- Transfers files and directory trees between hosts and instances.
- Creates and restores snapshots.
- Supports bridged and custom network interfaces.
- Defines host-side aliases for commands running inside instances.
Website: https://github.com/canonical/multipass
Support:
Developer: Canonical Ltd
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Multipass is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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