Install uc-launch
on Ubuntu

uc-launch

Install

Sane QEMU invocations to quickly launch Ubuntu Core VMs

This snap contains scripts to quickly and easily launch Ubuntu Core virtual machines using QEMU and KVM.

Usage: uc-launch[.command] [--ssh-port <port number>] <ubuntu-core.img>

Commands:

uc-launch - the default invocation
uc-launch.check - Checks if KVM support is available on the host machine
uc-launch.no-gui - force terminal only mode, with no virtualized display
uc-launch.gui - force the use of a virtualized display

This invocation will only work with UC20 and beyond images. Legacy UC16 and UC18 images are not supported.

Currently, only amd64 EFI images are supported.

Supported snap configuration:

default.gui - whether or not to use a virtualized display when using the default invocation (uc-image with no additional command). supported options: true,false (defaults to true)
default.ssh-host-port - the default host port to be forwarded to port 22 on the created VM (defaults to 8022). This can also be overridden on a per-invocation basis with the --ssh-port command line flag.
smp - the number of CPUs to give the created VMs (defaults to 2)
mem - the amount of memory to give the created VMs (defaults to 2048)

Details for uc-launch

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Last updated

16 August 2022 - latest/stable

Enable snaps on Ubuntu and install uc-launch

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Enable snapd

If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.

Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line: