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Easily create instant virtual machines

Developers like to be able to launch virtual machines quickly for testing, but when developers write code on different platforms it can become a bit more complex to test if they have to use different virtualisation stacks.

Fortunately, Ubuntu provides a solution for quick, disposable Ubuntu-based virtual machines on Intelbased machines, and it’s even supported on the new Mac M1 based devices (with a few limitations, naturally). This virtualisation software is called Multipass.

is basically a front-end tool to start virtual machines, but it can support many varied back ends including , , and others. is essentially an abstracted automation tool to create a VM on the underlying

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