Is there something comparable to this that is offered as a native $distro (Debian in particular) package, rather than a Snap? I'm slightly allergic to running parallel package managers.
Looks fairly comparable, but the writeup at https://docs.cumulusnetworks.com/cumulus-vx/Development-Envi... makes me think it might not quite treat "standard Linux-world solutions" as first class citizens. (Not to mention "vagrant plugin install ..." also looks a lot like a parallel package manager.)
you could make an alias for it to call qemu directly, but won't get much of the convenience from the multipass lifecycle commands