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 prerequisiste steps, depending on your host system. You can find specific installation instructions for your operating system in this guide:
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:
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