


Moreso, it is possible to mount directories of your host system and share files with the VM. With Multipass, one can run commands directly into the VM’s shell from your local computer. Multipass uses KVM on Linux, Hyper kit on macOS, and Hyper-V on Windows to run the virtual machine with minimal overhead. It is developed to run on macOS, Windows, and GNU/Linux systems.

Multipass is a lightweight Virtual machine manager developed by the canonical team to create and launch ubuntu instances on your local machine. This tool makes it easy to create and launch Ubuntu Virtual Machines for regular users, developers, and system admins. In this guide, we are going to take in yet another virtualization tool known as Multipass. These include Virtualbox, VMware, LXD, KVM, Docker, LXC, Proxmox, Vagrant e.t.c I use Virtualbox and VMware regularly for testing various Linux applications on Linux distributions. There are many virtualization tools available to deploy VMs for testing and learning purposes. But before we dive into the crux of this tool. This guide demonstrates how to run Ubuntu Virtual Machines on Linux and macOS using Multipass.
