Multipass launch

The multipass launch command without any argument will create and start a new instance based on the default image, using a random generated name, you can configure it using --name option. As of August 2020 no renaming option is available.

• https://multipass.run/docs/launch-command

Commands

• multipass launch --help
• multipass launch 22.04 --name TEST && multipass connect TEST
• multipass launch lts
• multipass launch lts --name MYTEST
• multipass launch jammy
• multipass launch --cpus 2 --mem 8G --disk 25G --name MY_NEW_VM && multipass connect MY_NEW_VM
• multipass launch --cpus 2 --mem 8G --disk 25G --name MY_NEW_VM
• multipass launch --cpus 2 --mem 8G --name MY_NEW_VM
• multipass launch --cpus 2 --name MY_NEW_VM
• multipass launch --name MY_NEW_VM 20.04

• multipass launch --name ubuntu-lts-custom --cloud-init cloud-config.yaml

To find available images execute: multipass find

Examples

multipass launch impish
Launched: my-open-kit

multipass launch 21.10 --name my_VM
Retrieving image: 6%
Verifying image:  \
Starting /
Waiting for initialization to complete -
Launched: my_VM

It will create a 5GB Ubuntu machine with 1 CPU and 1 GB memory

• multipass launch --help

Examples with errors

multipass launch lts
launch failed: The following errors occurred:
Instance stopped while starting

multipass launch
launch failed: CPU does not support KVM extensions.

multipass launch
launch failed: Downloaded image hash does not match

Solution: review /Library/Logs/Multipass/multipassd.log

Under macOS multipass or VMware VMs.

multipass launch
launch failed: cannot connect to the multipass socket
Please ensure multipassd is running and '/var/snap/multipass/common/multipass_socket' is accessible

multipass launch 21.10
launch failed: Operation canceled

Related commands

• multipass find
• multipass list
• multipass connect
• multipass start
• multipass delete VM_NAME --purge or multipass purge
• virtinst: virt-install
• virt-builder
• lxc launch
• apt update -y && apt upgrade -y
• uvt-kvm create

See also

• multipass: [ connect | shell |stop | start | restart | delete | launch | set | get | info | list | find | tranfer | purge | suspend | version ] multipass help
• Multipass, MULTIPASS_STORAGE, /Library/Logs/Multipass/multipassd.log, /var/run/multipass_socket, Multipass releases, multipassd

https://multipass.run/docs/launch-command

https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/255