Setting up Build VM under Multipass

Introduction

Multipass is a mini-cloud on your workstation using native hypervisors of all the supported plaforms (Windows, macOS and Linux), it will give you an Ubuntu command line in just a click (“Open shell”) or a simple multipass shell command, or even a keyboard shortcut.

Because it supports creating Ubuntu VMs with the least amount of work, Multipass is a perfect interface to create your Asuswrt-merlin build VM.

Setup Multipass

We are going to use Ubuntu 20.04 in Multipass.

• You can download Multipass here

Launch an instance

multipass launch --name primary --cpus 4 --disk 32G --memory 2G 20.04

Open a shell inside the instance

multipass shell primary

See the Mutlipass documentation for more information on creating, managing and interacting with VMs created by Multipass.