How To Install Multipass on MacOS X

In this tutorial we learn how to install Multipass on MacOS X.

Multipass is a lightweight VM Manager for Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It use KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and Hyperkit on MacOS X.

We can use multipass as Vagrant alternative to create local development environment on our workstation.

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install Multipass on MacOS X.

Multipass is a lightweight VM Manager for Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It use KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and Hyperkit on MacOS X.

We can use multipass as Vagrant alternative to create local development environment on our workstation.

Download Multipass for MacOS X

You can download Multipass from https://multipass.run/ or from this direct link https://multipass.run/download/macos.

Install Multipass on MacOS X

After the download finished click the multipass pkg installer that we just download and let’s install it.

This section will guide you on how to install Multipass on MacOS X.

  1. On the first page there is introduction to multipass. We can click Continue.

    install multipass run on macos x

    2. <li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1593687313741">
  <strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Read Me for this release</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">
    This step contain readme for multipass for this release. Click <strong>Continue</strong>.<br /><img width="732" height="550" src="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-02.png" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="lazy" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-02.png 732w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-02-640x481.png 640w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-02-359x270.png 359w" sizes="(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px" />
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<li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1593687314642">
  <strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">List of Licenses</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">
    Read the details and click <strong>Continue</strong>.<br /><img width="732" height="550" src="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-03.png" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="lazy" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-03.png 732w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-03-640x481.png 640w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-03-359x270.png 359w" sizes="(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px" />
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<li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1593687315612">
  <strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">License Agreement</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">
    Read the license and click <strong>Agree</strong>.<br /><img width="732" height="550" src="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-04.png" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="lazy" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-04.png 732w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-04-640x481.png 640w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-04-359x270.png 359w" sizes="(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px" />
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<li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1593744642470">
  <strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Installation location</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">
    You can change the installation location or use the default and click <strong>Install</strong>.<br /><img width="732" height="550" src="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-05.png" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="lazy" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-05.png 732w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-05-640x481.png 640w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-05-359x270.png 359w" sizes="(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px" />
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  <strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Input Password</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">
    Input your user password since the installer need to do privilege escalation to install Multipass.<br /><img width="555" height="344" src="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-06.png" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="lazy" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-06.png 555w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-06-436x270.png 436w" sizes="(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px" />
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<li class="schema-how-to-step" id="how-to-step-1593744644576">
  <strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Installation Finished</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">
    Installation finished. Click Close.<br /><img width="732" height="550" src="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-07.png" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="lazy" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-07.png 732w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-07-640x481.png 640w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-07-359x270.png 359w" sizes="(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px" />
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  <strong class="schema-how-to-step-name">Moving Installer to Trash</strong> <p class="schema-how-to-step-text">
    You can click Move To Trash if you don't need the installer anymore or choose keep if you want to share the installer to another computer.<br /><img width="732" height="550" src="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-08.png" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="lazy" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-08.png 732w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-08-640x481.png 640w, https://www.howtodojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/multipass-run-on-mac-08-359x270.png 359w" sizes="(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px" />
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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install and use multipass on MacOS X. We Can use multipass as alternative to vagrant as local development or testing environment.