Note: the setup described here was tested using Multipass 20.04 instances on Windows 10 Pro and on Ubuntu 20.04 hosts. You can run commands in VMs directly from your local host or log into the VMs shell and run from there. On Linux, there are applications such as Remmina to visualize the desktop (make sure the package remmina-plugin-rdp is installed in your host along with remmina, and that username and password are specified using the âNew connection profileâ button in the top left of the window). It can also use VirtualBox on Windows and macOS. Start and stop it with multipass start and multipass stop .multipass launch appliance:openhab Find your appliance Find your appliance VMâs IP address: multipass list Thatâs it Your appliance is now running in a virtual machine. To connect on MacOS, we can use the âMicrosoft Remote Desktopâ application, from the Mac App Store. Multipass gives your appliance an instance name like happy-frog. ![]() The VirtualBox VMâs will be configured using the vboxmanage command-line utility, as installed by the VirtualBox package. There, we enter the virtual machineâs IP address (which can be found by issuing the command ip addr on the guest), set the session to XOrg and enter the username and password we created on the previuos step. The multipass software runs in Windows under the SYSTEM account and I need the PsExec64.exe tool to interact with it, from an admin-mode PowerShell console. And we are done on the server side.įor the client, we can use on Windows the âRemote Desktop Connectionâ application. We will be asked to enter and re-enter a password. One possibility is to set a password to the default ubuntu user. Then, we need a user with a password in order to log in. For this, we must log in to the running Multipass instance first, doing multipass shell headbanging-squidĪnd, once inside the instance, sudo apt update Whether youre using Windows, Linux, or Mac OS, VirtualBox 7.0 will be. For this reason, a desktop environment must be installed (we use ubuntu-desktop but there are as many other options as flavors of Ubuntu exist), along with the RDP server (we will use here xrdp but there are also other options such as freerdp). And, if youre using an Apple M1-based laptop, you can get Multipass 1.8 for Mac. The images used by Multipass do not come with a graphical desktop installed. Other methods include VNC, plain X11 forwarding (described here) and running a Mir shell through X11 forwarding (as described here). I often switch between my mac and the Ubuntu VM for different experiments. It can also use VirtualBox on Windows and macOS. We describe here the simplest one, RDP (Remote Display Protocol). When working with multipass Ubuntu VMs, the standard way is to use multipass shell vmname. It uses KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and HyperKit on macOS to run the VM with minimal overhead. Graphical desktop can be viewed in various ways. With support for cloud-init metadata, simulating a cloud deployment on one's M1 Macbook is a straightforward process. Instances created with VirtualBox donât get transferred, but you can always come back to them.Note: Please see instead How to set up a graphical interface. Multipass is free, though, which will tempt many, and getting to an Ubuntu (naturally) command prompt took us a matter of seconds. ![]() ![]() If you want to switch back to the default driver: PS> multipass set local.driver=hyperv You can then open, say, and the service running inside the instance on port 8080 will be exposed. Created by Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu Linux), this virtual machine technology was released to make it easier for developers to work with (and develop for) containers. To expose a service running inside the instance on your host, you can use VirtualBoxâs port forwarding feature, for example: PS>
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