How-to guides

The following how-to guides provide step-by-step instructions on the installation, use, management and troubleshooting of Multipass.

Install and deploy Multipass

Installing Multipass is a straightforward process but may require some prerequisite steps, depending on your host system. You can find specific installation instructions for your operating system in this guide:

• How to install Multipass

Manage instances

Multipass allows you to create Ubuntu instances with a single command. As your needs grow, you can modify and customise instances as well as use and create blueprints for customised instances:

• Create an instance

• Modify an instance

• Use an instance

• Use the primary instance

• Use instance command aliases

• Share data with an instance

• Remove an instance

• Add a network to an existing instance

• Configure static IPs

• Use a blueprint

• Use the Docker blueprint

• Run a Docker container in Multipass

Customise Multipass

You may also want to customise Multipass to address specific needs, from managing Multipass drivers to configuring a graphical user interface:

• Set up the driver

• Migrate from Hyperkit to QEMU on macOS

• Authenticate clients with the Multipass service

• Build Multipass images with Packer

• Set up a graphical interface

• Use a different terminal from the system icon

• Integrate with Windows Terminal

• Configure where Multipass stores external data

• Configure Multipass’s default logging level

Troubleshoot

Use the following how-to guides to troubleshoot issues with your Multipass installation, beginning by inspecting the logs:

• Access logs

• Mount an encrypted home folder

• Troubleshoot launch/start issues

• Troubleshoot networking