Multipass

Multipass is a lightweight VM manager developed by Canonical that lets you easily run Ubuntu instances on macOS, Windows, and Linux, ideal for development and testing.

Example to launch Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with 1 CPU and 2GB memory:

Launch an instance

multipass launch 24.10 --name ubuntu24 --disk 10G --cpus 1 --memory 2G

Delete a instance

multipass stop ubuntu24
multipass delete ubuntu24
multipass purge