🔗 Easy Ubuntu on Mac (ARM/x86)

Parallels works well for me, but I recently found an even more ‘lightweight’ approach to quickly set up an Ubuntu VM on my Mac.

The following one-liner will create a VM named devvm running Ubuntu 24.04 (‘noble’):

multipass launch noble --name devvm --memory 4G --disk 20G --cpus 2

and then

multipass shell devvm

gives me a terminal session in the VM.

And this is a proper VM; e.g. I can host Docker containers inside of it. And there is only a tiny bit of preliminary setup.