Canonical published Multipass 1.9 tools designed to simplify the installation of installation various versions of Ubuntu in virtual machines launched in Linux, Windows and MacOS virtualization systems. Multipass allows the developer with one command without additional settings to start the desired version of Ubuntu in a virtual machine, for example, for experiments or checking the operation of their application. KVM is used to launch a virtual machine in Linux, in Windows – Hyper -V, and in MacOS – Hyperkit. It is also possible to use Virtualbox virtual machines. The project code is written on C ++ and is distributed under the GPLV3 license. To quickly install Multipass in Ubuntu, Snap package .
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Multipass independently extracts the necessary image of the operating system and supports it in current condition. Cloud-Init can be used for configuration. The possibility of both mounting disk sections in a virtual environment (team “Multipass Mount”), and the transfer of individual files between the host system and the virtual machine (the “Multipass Transfer”) is provided. The complete integration of the installed virtual machine with the main desktop is supported (applications, system menu and notifications are added).
The new version implements the possibility of authentication of the client for launching Multipass under an unvillated user. For the MacOS platform, support for converting virtual machines to sleep mode has been added and the ability to launch a local mini-eye (binding of running virtual environment with network interfaces of hosts to organize access to virtual machines from external networks). The possibility of launching Ubuntu 22.04 in MacOS and Windows.