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I'm quoting their copy here to make sure my criticism is accurate: > Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation What does this get me over VirtualBox? > Get an

I'm quoting their copy here to make sure my criticism is accurate: > Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation What does this get me over VirtualBox? > Get an instant Ubuntu VM with a single command. Vagrant? Maybe the "single command" is good? Am I just being too much of a mounting-it-locally-with-curlftpfs guy? > Multipass can launch and run virtual machines and configure them with cloud-init like a public cloud. I am already confused. Are these VMs on a public cloud or not? If they are on my local machine, it's not really a test of the cloud (hint: Testing problems with virtual machines is not the difficult part of simulating a cloud on your computer, testing the possible failures with the other 200- hosted message queues and databases is). Again, what is this getting me over Vagrant or Virtualbox? > Prototype your cloud launches locally for free. I am still at a loss to understand what exactly is the selling point of this tool. Is it literally just "vagrant, but for Ubuntu"? I really don't get it.

capableweb 5y ago
The docs seems to explain things the best, as usual: https://multipass.run/docs https://multipass.run/docs > Multipass is a mini-cloud on your workstation using native hypervisors of all the supported plaforms (Windows, macOS and Linux), Seems their innovation is "Docker, but after 8 years of Docker"
- vizzah 5y ago
  What about Canonical's LXD/LXC?
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hluska 5y ago
I might be wrong about this - I have a history of sometimes not always understanding technology before I discard it. However, I briefly used Multipass but switched back to Vagrant. To me, it was a new tech that did the same as the old tech only with the usual new tech adoption muck ups. However, I might be wrong. Maybe I just missed the point of it?
easton 5y ago
It seems faster than Vagrant to me, and doesn't rely on VirtualBox (it uses Hyper-V on Windows, KVM on Linux, and Apple's Hypervisor API on macOS). Granted, Vagrant doesn't either, but very few of the boxes have support for the native hypervisors.
- lenn0x 5y ago
  Yes it's been way faster for me over Virtualbox. It's how I run docker now from macOS. I've been testing out the M1 support for few months now.
zokier 5y ago
> Is it literally just "vagrant, but for Ubuntu"? Yes. It doesn't seem very confusing to me?
blacksmith_tb 5y ago
It may be popping up in the news again because Canonical just announced M1 support for multipass on macOS[1]. I haven't tried it, but I do appreciate the reference to The Fifth Element. 1: https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-transforms-linux-on-mac https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-transforms-linux-on-mac
- 3ds 5y ago
  That‘s why and how I found it.
maccard 5y ago
I'm with you - this seems like docker for ubuntu.
- lenn0x 5y ago
  that's how ive been running it on macOS. I put up a guide https://github.com/chrisgoffinet/docker-multipass https://github.com/chrisgoffinet/docker-multipass
Tajnymag 5y ago
Cloud-Init is a local tool for setting up a new fresh system instance. It isn't tied to any real cloud.

capableweb 5y ago

The docs seems to explain things the best, as usual: https://multipass.run/docs https://multipass.run/docs > Multipass is a mini-cloud on your workstation using native hypervisors of all the supported plaforms (Windows, macOS and Linux), Seems their innovation is "Docker, but after 8 years of Docker"

vizzah 5y ago
What about Canonical's LXD/LXC?

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hluska 5y ago

I might be wrong about this - I have a history of sometimes not always understanding technology before I discard it. However, I briefly used Multipass but switched back to Vagrant. To me, it was a new tech that did the same as the old tech only with the usual new tech adoption muck ups. However, I might be wrong. Maybe I just missed the point of it?

easton 5y ago

It seems faster than Vagrant to me, and doesn't rely on VirtualBox (it uses Hyper-V on Windows, KVM on Linux, and Apple's Hypervisor API on macOS). Granted, Vagrant doesn't either, but very few of the boxes have support for the native hypervisors.

lenn0x 5y ago
Yes it's been way faster for me over Virtualbox. It's how I run docker now from macOS. I've been testing out the M1 support for few months now.

zokier 5y ago

> Is it literally just "vagrant, but for Ubuntu"? Yes. It doesn't seem very confusing to me?

blacksmith_tb 5y ago

It may be popping up in the news again because Canonical just announced M1 support for multipass on macOS[1]. I haven't tried it, but I do appreciate the reference to The Fifth Element. 1: https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-transforms-linux-on-mac https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-transforms-linux-on-mac

3ds 5y ago
That‘s why and how I found it.

maccard 5y ago

I'm with you - this seems like docker for ubuntu.

lenn0x 5y ago
that's how ive been running it on macOS. I put up a guide https://github.com/chrisgoffinet/docker-multipass https://github.com/chrisgoffinet/docker-multipass

Tajnymag 5y ago

Cloud-Init is a local tool for setting up a new fresh system instance. It isn't tied to any real cloud.