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Thanks for the correction.

Indeed, you can launch many more images than those you get when you run "multipass find".

There is a post about this at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/new-way-to-launch-images-othe...

Right, "multipass find" only lists the curated ubuntu LTS images on macos. Attempting to launch a qcow2 or img on macos shows "launch failed: http and file based images are not supported" which leads back to my original question.

qcow2/img launching indeed works fine on linux

multipass supports two hard-coded remotes, `release:` and `snapcraft:`. It should be feasible to be able to launch any of the VM images from LXD (i.e. https://us.images.linuxcontainers.org/), as long as there was a way to add a new _remote_.

edit: there is a pending issue https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/307

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