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Multipass vs Quickemu: catalog facts
Multipass	Quickemu
Free Free and open source under the GPL, published by Canonical.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux, macOS, Command line
One command for a fresh Ubuntu VM, with images fetched and kept updated for you Uses the native hypervisor on each platform for minimal overhead	quickget downloads the official image and writes the config for you Sensible QEMU options chosen from your actual hardware
Ubuntu-focused; other distributions are not the use case The Homebrew cask is community-maintained and not officially supported	Command line only Host support is Linux and macOS; there is no Windows host
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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