multipass.md

NOTE: - most of these assume Win10 Pro and Hyper/V

References

• Documentation
• CLI Commands

The basics

Listing VM's

PS C:\Users\matth> multipass list
Name                    State             IPv4             Image
helpful-dog             Running           172.26.164.110   Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
                                          100.122.105.91

Stopping and Changing Memory

PS C:\Users\matth> multipass stop helpful-dog
>>
PS C:\Users\matth> multipass set local.helpful-dog.memory=8G
PS C:\Users\matth> multipass get local.helpful-dog.memory
8.0GiB
PS C:\Users\matth> multipass get local.helpful-dog.disk
5.0GiB
PS C:\Users\matth> multipass get local.helpful-dog.cpus
1
PS C:\Users\matth> multipass start helpful-dog
PS C:\Users\matth> multipass exec helpful-dog free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         8140380      243712     7604520         916      292148     7658384
Swap:              0           0           0

Creating

$ multipass launch -m 8G -c4 -d 20G --name awstools jammy

Multipass and VPNs on Mac

• Routing Multipass Virtual Machine(s) traffic over VPN established on host (MacOS)
• See canonical/multipass#495 (comment)