multipass¶
learn more about multipass here to run VMs easily
instance storage location¶
unable to start / stop multipass VM¶
... it might run into a timeout, just doesn't do anything and there's no real output for anyone even with the -vvv flag. This happened multiple times for me and I don't feel good about multipass. But hey, I also don't want to switch to anything else right now. What to do when you can't start or stop or interact with the VM.
I got most of this from this good github issue here
disable multipass:
check for a snapshot, it's hopefully called suspended, you want to update the last bit of the path probably (your-instance-name and maybe the image as well)
sudo qemu-img snapshot -l /var/snap/multipass/common/data/multipassd/vault/instances/your-instance-name/ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
delete the suspend snapshot:
sudo qemu-img snapshot -d /var/snap/multipass/common/data/multipassd/vault/instances/your-instance-name/ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
re-enable multipass:
start your vm: