In addition to Apple M1 support, the new Multipass release also introduces aliases to bring Ubuntu to your favorite terminal by linking commands from a virtual machine to commands on the host operating system. “Multipass is Canonical’s answer.”Īccording to Canonical’s product manager Nathan Hart, “Canonical wants to get developers running on Linux faster than any other option on the market, and the Multipass team has helped accomplish that.” Popular VM tools such as VirtualBox and VMWare either do not support the new architecture or are still in the preview stage,” said Canonical. “Until now, M1 users haven’t had many options for running Linux.
In fact, Multipass promises to offer Apple M1 MacBook developers interesting in developing apps for the Linux/Ubuntu desktop the fastest way to run Linux cross-platform, running a Ubuntu VM in as little as 20 seconds. The company behind Ubuntu have updated Multipass to verison 1.8, a release that introduces support for setting up and running Ubuntu virtual machines on Apple M1 MacBook devices with minimal effort. Canonical informs 9to5Linux today about the latest release of their Multipass tool for orchestrating virtual Ubuntu instances on Apple M1 Macs.
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