Multipass
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Ubuntu 16.04 or later?
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Details for Multipass
Package name
- multipass
License
- GPL-3.0 OR Proprietary
Last updated
- 25 September 2026 - latest/stable
- Yesterday - latest/edge
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Instant Ubuntu VMs
Multipass is a tool to launch and manage VMs on Windows, Mac and Linux that simulates a cloud environment with support for cloud-init. Get Ubuntu on-demand with clean integration to your IDE and version control on your native platform.
Launch an instance (by default you get the current Ubuntu LTS)
multipass launch --name foo
Run commands in that instance, try running bash (logout or ctrl-d to quit)
multipass exec foo -- lsb_release -a
Pass a cloud-init metadata file to an instance on launch
multipass launch -n bar --cloud-init cloud-config.yaml
See your instances
multipass list
Stop and start instances
multipass stop
multipass start
Get help
multipass help
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