Multipass VS devenv

Multipass I love Multipass for quick Ubuntu instances spun up for testing or as a playground. Wish I would have known and used of it sooner. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

If you just need Ubuntu then you can try "Multipass" from Canonical (https://multipass.run/). Works quite well on my M2 Air. I haven't tried using Linux GUI with it though as I need only terminal based VMs. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I have been using Multipass [0] for a while and it works great to quickly spin up an Ubuntu environment on my MacBook. It supports cloud config in case you want a custom instance. It seems to be limited to running Ubuntu instances only (at least, I haven't figured out how to run other Linux instances) but if you want a quick clean Ubuntu VM I would recommend it. 0: https://multipass.run/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use & evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they've changed the license, you're out of luck. We've moved our... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

How does it compare to https://multipass.run/? - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

It works on MacOS/Windows, unlike systemd. Therefore it's well suited for development environment setups for polyglot teams. https://devenv.sh/ is one example that uses it to do just that. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

Sounds like nix using devenv[1] also would solve this problem. https://devenv.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

Software developers often want to customize: 1. Their home environments: for packages (some reach for brew on MacOS) and configurations (dotfiles, and some reach for stow). 2. Their development shells: for build dependencies (compilers, SDKs, libraries), tools (LSP, linters, formatters, debuggers), and services (runtime, database). Some reach for devcontainers here. 3. Or even their operating systems: for... - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago

Https://devenv.sh/ and nix in general are great for setting up dev environments. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

2) A way to run services apps depend on (databases, job runners, cache etc). I am going to suggest one of the Nix based tools that do those things:

  - https://devenv.sh/ (I use this at work).

- Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago