Copy across instances and run on different computers.

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Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

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Copy across instances and run on different computers. #3377

Open danielesk opened 8 months ago

danielesk commented 8 months ago

What are you trying to do? I have multiple computers, and after installing Multipass on one of them, I've also set up a Linux instance. I'd like to know if it's possible to directly copy this Linux instance to other computers for running, without reinstalling it each time. Is this currently supported, and if so, how can I proceed? OS：Windows11 Additionally, is this operation supported on other operating systems?

What's your proposed solution?

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luis4a0 commented 8 months ago

Hi @danielesk, this is not supported at the moment in neither platform. Let me mention this is more involved than copying files, because each copied instance must be configured for the networking used in the new host platform. That said, we are getting closer than that and at some point we might implement this feature. But I cannot give time estimates. Thanks!