My Environment

Chip: Apple M3 Max
Memory: 64GB
macOS: Sonoma 14.2.1

Installation

% brew install multipass
% multipass version

Usage

% multipass fd  # Show available images
% multipass launch 20.04 -c 4 -m 8G -d 64G  # Create a new instance with Ubuntu 20.04, named 'foo', with 4 CPUs, 8GB of memory, and 64GB of disk space

% multipass ls  # List all your instances

% multipass start foo  # Start the 'foo' instance
% multipass shell foo  # Log into the 'foo' instance. If 'foo' is not started, this command will start it automatically before logging in.
$ exit  # Log out from the current instance
% multipass stop foo  # Stop the 'foo' instance

% multipass delete foo  # Move the 'foo' instance to trash
% multipass purge  # Clear the trash, removing all deleted instances

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References

How to start Multipass: