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Mount problems with >= 1.14 series

Continues with Multipass 1.15

"Multipass loses mounts on restart" (opened Aug'24)

The 1.14 series made changes to how file mounts work. While this aims at higher performance or fixing something, the problems are so severe it has required us to change the way scripting is done (using native mounts instead of classic mounts in prep.sh).

Note: Replace on MacOS QEMU by Apple VZ may be related? (also below)

Replace on MacOS QEMU by Apple VZ

"If we ever considered this, it would be to replace QEMU entirely [...]"

Initially, the Multipass team had bad experience with the Apple Virtualization API.

However, maybe using such would allow e.g. the mount problems (and/or performance on small files?) to be remedied.

Transitioning to Lima: Linux Machines could be a possibility if the features / quality of Multipass continues to degrade.