[PLUG] Multipass on Ubuntu

[Russell Senior]

Fwiw, the download to initialize it was so slow, when it got to 50%
downloaded, I started installing ubuntu-server in a VM with virt-manager
and finished the install before the multipass thing was ready, so I still
don't know anything about it ;-).

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:57 PM Aaron Burt <aaron at bavariati.org> wrote:

> On 2020-08-20 13:38, Russell Senior wrote:
> > I just learned about it today. I'm considering trying it out to use as
> > a
> > temporary build environment. Has anybody used it, want to give some
> > reflection on their experience? I would ordinarily use kvm and
> > laboriously
> > install from an iso.
>
> That's pretty cool!  Looks like it only supports Ubuntu images.
> It seems very similar in function to "vagrant", which seems more
> scriptable and is pretty much the industry-standard tool for easily
> managing/scripting VMs from the CLI.
>
> I haven't used Vagrant for a while, looks like they've added
> pre-packaged VM images called "boxes":
> https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search
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