For questions relating to Canonical's Multipass - a virtualization platform for Ubuntu VMs.
Questions tagged [multipass]
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How to spin a x86_64 ubuntu on Apple M1 with Multipass
I have an Apple M1 processor (ARM64). Is there any way to spin a x86_64 machine? By default Multipass 1.8.0 is launching ARM64 Ubuntu instances.
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Multipass mount: source is not readable
I try to mount a directory to an multipass ubuntu instance. But I get the error:
mount failed: source "" is not readable
The directory should has the correct mode: drwxrwxr-x@
On macOS Catalina.
Thanks for help.
fabKirs
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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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Multipass Source path does not exist
I'm running multipass on Ubuntu Desktop 21.04 to create many Ubuntu VMs on this Ubuntu machine. I need to mount a folder I created at the root directory /app to one of the VMs. While ls -l /app shows the folder, multipass mount /app newvm gives the…
Ryan
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Import/Export VMs from Multipass
I assume there's a way (but maybe not?) to import/export a vms from multipass. For the life of me I can't find documentation on this. Basically, I'm planning to do a clean install of 19.10 and I would like to backup a couple of my vms in multipass…
Ryan J. Yoder
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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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Cannot access an Ubuntu guest VM running under multipass on an Ubuntu Host from the outer network
Setup & Purpose
I use a headless Ubuntu server as VM host running a nextcloud appliance using multipass.
I want to access the VM from another Desktop System in the same network for testing.
local hardware server running Ubuntu LTS 16.04
machine…
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Ubuntu Multipass Cloud-init SSH Issue: Retaining 'ubuntu' User's SSH Key While Injecting My Own
I am trying to create a cloud-init configuration file to inject my own SSH keys into the "ubuntu" user for a Multipass instance. I have managed to successfully inject my SSH key when I create a new user for myself and set the SSH key for that user.…
vmvart
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How to open GUI applications in multipass container(guest = ubuntu, host = ubuntu)? X-Forwarding
How to open GUI applications in multipass container(guest = ubuntu, host = ubuntu)?
I have installed multipass container, which is kind of docker container to run logically separate system. Multipass provides the facility of ssh(terminal access) but…
Nipun Pruthi
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How to create a Multipass instance with custom installed softwares and share it with others
I would like my students to use a specific version of Ubuntu with custom-installed software (ROS and Gazebo, software for robotic applications). In addition, my students might be running Windows, Mac OS, or Linux.
To simplify the installation on…
Marca85
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Multipass bridged network not accepting connections from internet
I have a Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS VM in Multipass running which I want to expose to the internet via router port forwarding. The VM is using bridged network mode. If I run nc -l -p 8080 in the VM and listen to the port I can see connections initiated from…
Justin Oroz
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How to fix ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xx.x port 22: Operation timed out
I am new to running ubuntu so not sure what I am missing here
on My Old macbook pro (ubuntu server running):
-I installed ubuntu multipass
-created an ubuntu instance
-with multipass list command I can see it running
on my new Macbook Pro:
-I…
Raed Tulefat
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How multipassd should be restarted to get multipass commands fuctional again?
Currently I can't run multipass shell, it shows the following in the terminal:
$ multipass shell ubuntu-test
shell failed: cannot connect to the multipass socket
Please ensure multipassd is running and '/var/snap/multipass/common/multipass_socket'…
N0rbert
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Network error message: Feature is not implemented on this backend
i have a problem with multipass.
For the background only:
I'm trying to get the following example declared as simple to work:
How to build a highly available Kubernetes cluster with MicroK8s
I take the following command from the documentation for…
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failed: ssh connection failed: 'Timeout connecting to ... (Multipass)
I got the error ... failed: ssh connection failed: 'Timeout connecting to 10.156.58.216' when running both multipass ls and multipass shell blog.
I cannot list my instances and log in my instances.
Are there ways to solve the error?
