For questions relating to Canonical's Multipass - a virtualization platform for Ubuntu VMs.
Questions tagged [multipass]
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How can I redirect storage of Multipass VMs?
I've just been trying out Multipass and can see great value in using it for training and testing. Unfortunately with the small SSD I use as the root volume in my server it quickly ran out of space.
I can't seem to locate the path where the disks are…
Paul Gallon
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How do I stop multipass from launching on startup?
I've installed multipass using this command:
sudo snap install multipass
Now, there's an ugly orange icon that displays in the system status area ("systray") of GNOME Shell in the top right corner of the screen.
How can I stop multipass from…
Flimm
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Create multipass VM with IP of local network
There seems to be significant amounts of info on configuring the network interfaces within multipass, but I am struggling to figure out what is likely quite easy?
My local network is 192.168.1.0/24 and VMs created within multipass end up with …
Bob Boursaw
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How to modify the existing multipass instance configuration?
I have created the multipass instance with 4GB Ram and 1 CPU. I want upgrade instance to 6GB + 2 CPUS.
How can I achieve this task?
Vibhu Bajaj
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Error while running multipass launch
I'm new to ubuntu. I want to lunch multipass but it gives low disk space error. I have enough space in my hard disk. Thank you
Error message : launch failed: Available disk (541548544 bytes) below minimum for this image (2361393152 bytes)
Release…
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Is it possible to use additional images with Multipass?
I'd like to use multipass to set up arch, debian, and amazon linux 2 images in addition to ubuntu images; is this possible?
Róisín Grannell
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Ubuntu Multipass: permission denied
when I try to do ./ to test one of my programs it says permission denied. Is there a way to run multipass as administrator to see if that solves the problem or what could be the problem.
cristian mena
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How can I create my own images for multipass?
I'm having some difficulty finding docs for this.
I'd like to create my own images and use them in multipass. I can't seem to find any documentation on how to create the image (can I use a docker image, a qcow2 image?)
From what I can gather, I…
rory toma
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Multipass qemu - Add more interfaces to ubuntu cloud image
using multipass on a bionic host, how is it possible to add another interface to a bionic cloud instance, so that this new interface can be accessed from lan network?
The purpose would be to keep the primary interface as NAT to be used by multipass…
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How can we add a virtual drive to a multipass VM instance?
I am trying to add a virtual drive to a VM instance created by multipass. I am not able to find the command line options in multipass for doing the task.
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What is recommended way to use ansible with multipass?
By default ansible works with VMs in a network. multipass networks returns me networks failed: The networks feature is not implemented on this backend.
Probably switching to lxd backend would give me more network options including bridges. Before…
dataved
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MULTIPASS_STORAGE instructions not working
I'm trying to free up space on my root drive on my ubuntu system.
One thing that is consuming about 12G is multipass. I want to move it to the more spacious /home directory.
So I followed the instructions here and created the new directory…
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How do I force a Multipass VM to refresh it's IP and obtain a completely new one
I need to force a multipass VM to change it's IP address.
It can't use the same one as I'm trying to debug an issue where the IP changes.
I have tried several things but none were successful. Any ideas?
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use existing multipass image
I migrated my files from my old x86 Macbook Pro to my dazzling M1 Mac. I did not migrate any applications, because I don't want to use the Rosetta technology to run x86 binaries in emulation.
I installed Multipass, no problem. But I have no access…
James K. Lowden
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Set up DHCP client in Multipass VM
I have created a new VM with multipass via:
multipass launch --network en1 -c 2 -d 100G -m 16GB -n microk8s-vm
On my router I have set a DHCP reservation, and ip a s enp0s8 confirms the correct address. The issue is my Google Wifi router requires…
Justin Oroz
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