Linux primary 5.4.0-99-generic #112-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 2 17:13: aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux It looks like nobody solved the problem of running x86 virtual machines on M1 silicon yet.

multipass is just a nice wrapper around the built-in MacOS hypervisor.

Once the VM is started, your home directory is mapped into the Home folder of the home directory of ubuntu user.

Start the primary Ubuntu VM instance with multipass start.

Install Multipass with brew install -cask multipass.

Here’a three-step process to getting a running Ubuntu VM on your Mac: The same toolset no longer works on newer Macs with M1 CPU (VMware Fusion is in tech preview, so we’re getting there), but there’s an amazingly simple alternative: Multipass by Canonical. The usual recommendation I make to get past that hurdle is to create a Ubuntu virtual machine that can be destroyed every time to mess it up.Ĭreating a virtual machine is trivial on Linux and MacOS with Intel CPU (install VirtualBox and Vagrant). If you’re brand-new to Python and Ansible, you might be a bit reluctant to install a bunch of packages and Ansible collections on your production laptop to start building your automation skills.

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