Multipass Opensource

Multipass is a relatively new open-source project since it started in 2018. The project was created to make it easy to create and manage lightweight virtual machines on both local machines and in the cloud.

OS support

The initial release of Multipass was designed to work exclusively on Ubuntu systems, but support for other operating systems was added in subsequent releases.

Multipass uses Hyper-V on Windows, QEMU and HyperKit on macOS and LXD on Linux for minimal overhead and the fastest possible start time. Switching your hypervisor to Virtualbox is a breeze.

How to install Multipass

Here are the instructions to install Multipass on different operating systems

Ubuntu

sudo snap install multipass --classic

Debian

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install snapd
sudo snap install multipass --classic

Fedora

To install Multipass on Fedora, open a terminal and run the following commands:

sudo dnf install snapd
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
sudo snap install multipass --classic

Windows