Canonical has published the release of Multipass 1.14, a tool designed to simplify the installation of various versions of Ubuntu in virtual machines running on Linux, Windows, and macOS virtualization systems. Multipass allows a developer to run the desired version of Ubuntu in a virtual machine with a single command, without additional configuration, for tasks such as experimentation or testing their application. KVM is used for launching virtual machines on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows, and HyperKit on macOS. VirtualBox can also be used for execution. virtuella maskiner The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. A snap package is prepared for quick installation of Multipass in Ubuntu.
Multipass automatically extracts the necessary operating system image and keeps it up to date. It can be configured using cloud-init. There is support for both mounting disk partitions in the virtual environment (the 'multipass mount' command) and transferring individual files between the host system and the virtual machine (the 'multipass transfer' command). Full integration of the installed virtual machine with the main desktop is supported (application icons, system menu, and notifications are added).
Huvudsakliga förÀndringar:
- A graphical interface has been added for interacting with Multipass services, simplifying the management of virtual machines.
- The ability to add an external network bridge to an existing virtual machine instance has been implemented.
- An option to forcefully stop virtual machine instances has been added: 'multipass stop --force '.
- Snapshot support has been added for the VirtualBox backend, which was previously available only for QEMU and Hyper-V.
- Additional restrictions have been introduced when mounting directories from the host environment into guest systems. Protection against user ID collisions when mounting has been implemented.
- The size of the snap package has been reduced by 48% (from 122MB to 64MB).
- During vcpkg builds, the POCO library is used instead of gRPC.
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