[rcarmo]

I liked the idea of it until I realized I could not run it as a non-admin user on the Mac because they had not designed the app in a way that allowed for it - the control socket was inaccessible to my "regular" user.

Issue has been open since March 2020: https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1437

[zibzab]

???

i am pretty sure it works as user on ubuntu, just like their lxc containers (main reason I prefer them to docker)

you may need to set it up as root and join the required group, but after that you should not need root.

[rcarmo]

That is not the way it is working on macOS (nor the way it should work at all).

[zibzab]

I assume you mean being user and in the multipass group is not the way you want it.

How should it work then?

[rcarmo]

I should not need to add myself to the Multipass group nor need any under the hood configuration changes. It should just work for non-admins, although some things like updating should require an admin password.