Snap comes pre-installed in all Ubuntu releases starting from version 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu flavours, Solus 3 and above, Zorin OS etc. Multipass is available as snap package, so it can be installed on any Linux operating systems that supports snapd. Multipass is a cross platform application that supports GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows. It is also possible to mount a directory of your host system into the instances and share files and folders between the host system and VMs. You can run commands in VMs directly from your local host or log into the VM's shell and run from there.

It can also use VirtualBox on Windows and macOS. It uses KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and HyperKit on macOS to run the virtual machine with minimal overhead. Since Multipass get you the up-to-date instances, you don't have to waste time on updates on launch! Using Multipass, you can quickly launch fresh Ubuntu VMs and use them for testing your code or application. Multipass is a lightweight, commandline VM manager developed by Canonical team, for quickly deploying Ubuntu instances on your local machine. Whether you are a regular user or developer or system admin, you can instantly create and launch Ubuntu VMs with Multipass in Linux. Today, we are going to learn about yet another Virtualization utility named Multipass. I use KVM, Vagrant and Virtualbox often for testing various applications on multiple Linux distributions.

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