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Quickemu vs Multipass: catalog facts
Quickemu	Multipass
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL, published by Canonical.
Linux, macOS, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux
quickget downloads the official image and writes the config for you Sensible QEMU options chosen from your actual hardware	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
Command line only Host support is Linux and macOS; there is no Windows host	Ubuntu-focused; other distributions are not the use case The Homebrew cask is community-maintained and not officially supported
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-3.0
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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