[note] Run Ubuntu VMs on Your Mac Using Multipass

📌 Introduction

Multipass is a simple tool by Canonical for running Ubuntu VMs easily.

🚀 Quick Start

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brew install qemu
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multipass launch 20.04 -c 8 -m 8G -d 100G
multipass list
multipass shell your_vname
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sudo apt update
sudo apt install neofetch
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neofetch

Download Desktop

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sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop xrdp

🔁 Recap

  • Learned how to quickly launch and manage Ubuntu VMs using Multipass on macOS
  • Understood how to allocate resources and access the VM via shell

🔗 References

[note] Run Ubuntu VMs on Your Mac Using Multipass

https://hsiangjenli.github.io/blog/note_multipass_ubuntu/

Author

Hsiang-Jen Li

Posted on

2023-10-23

Updated on

2025-05-14

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