Instance
See also: How to manage instances
An instance is a virtual machine created and managed by Multipass.
Instance types
Instances in Multipass can be of two kinds: primary or regular.
The primary instance is the default instance created or used when invoking the start
or shell
commands without giving a name
argument. By default, the instance will be configured with 1 CPU, 1 gigabyte of memory, 5 gigabytes of virtual disk space, and the user’s home directory automatically mounted into the instance.
As with any other mount, it can be unmounted with multipass umount
. For instance, multipass umount primary
will unmount all mounts made by Multipass inside primary
, including the auto-mounted Home
. (On Windows, mounts are disabled by default for security reasons. See local.privileged-mounts
for information on how to enable them if you need.)
The regular instance is any instance that is not the primary instance.
A regular instance can be made primary. See client.primary-name
.
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