NakilaBarrieJan 22, 2019
popey
Need to quickly spin up #ubuntu VMs on Microsoft Windows? Multipass is what you need! This release joins the macOS and Linux builds already available.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/multipass-now-also-available-for-windows/9548?u=popey
Multipass now also available for Windows

Hello again! Some more exciting news today 🙂 Multipass for Windows Following our macOS release, this time the team is really happy to announce another platform Multipass will speed your workflow on. You can now grab the installer package for Windows from our GitHub Releases page. You need Windows 10 update 1803 or later and currently only Pro and Enterprise editions are supported due to the limitations of Home versions. Installation See here for detailed installation instruction...

Jan 22, 2019 at 11:15amWeb
Show threadTimJan 23, 2019
@popey what exactly is the advantage of replacing LXC in snapcraft with multipass instead of switching to a cross-platform container-based alternative like Docker for example? I'm honestly wondering.
Show threadpopeyJan 23, 2019
@TimSueberkrueb One for the forum, I think :)
Show threadTimJan 24, 2019
@popey okay. I hope it won't attract trolling.
Show threadpopeyJan 24, 2019
@TimSueberkrueb Hah! Nah, it's just something that I think needs discussion somewhere rather than here, that's all :)
Show threadTimJan 24, 2019
@popey https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/reasoning-behind-the-move-to-multipass/9648
Reasoning behind the move to multipass

Hey, I’m wondering about the reason behind the move to multipass: What is the advantage of dropping LXC/LXD for multipass (which is basically a cli tool for QEMU, if I understand it correctly) instead of switching to a cross-platform container-based solution like Docker for example? Would love to understand the reasoning behind this move, since I couldn’t find much information about it. The release notes say that multipass will “[guarantee] more consistent results when builds are run from diff...