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Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux. The downloading of a minty-fresh image takes a matter of seconds, and within minutes a VM can be up and running

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"Use it, especially when on Windows 10 Pro"

5/5

What do you like best about Canonical Multipass?

Multipass works like a charm with Windows 10 Pro and Hyper-V. I migrated to it from VirtualBox after upgrading to Windows 10 Pro. In W10Pro, Hyper-V is enabled by default, and Multipass takes care of all the VM management that is needed. Stuff that you did before using VBox. Thanks to multipass, I was able to continue using my workflow, as it was established with VBox.

One more key asset of multipass I like is the fact that multipass delete does not actually delete your VM and you can restore it. You need to multipass purge in order to really wipe them out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canonical Multipass?

Two things:

1. Ubuntu only VMS

2. From time to time I have to delete "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.ics" . This is needed when you try to start the VM and you get a time out from multipass. When you see such an error message check the contents of this file. If they are mangled, delete it and reboot (unfortunately). You're done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Canonical Multipass solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am running multipass on Windows. I am using it for the following use cases:

- Running specific VMs per project to keep infomation and installations isolated when needed. These VMs are long lived

- Spinning up ephemeral VMs to test software

- Spin up a VM to run microk8s since on W10Pro minikube is not a choice.

In all cases, I get the benefit of clean Ubuntu setups, painless and hassle-free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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