LXD 5.6 has been released

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 5.6! This is another busy LXD release, coming with improvements all around, whether you’re using LXD to run some containers, virtual machines or are using clustering and projects. Enjoy! New features and … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 3 years ago

LXD 5.0 LTS has been released

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 5.0 LTS! This is our 4th LTS release and quite an exciting one for anyone coming from LXD 4.0 as it significantly steps up LXD’s abilities, especially when operating in clustered environments. The changelo … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 4 years ago

LXD 4.9 has been released

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 4.9! This comes with a few contributions from students of the University of Texas in Austin: limits.instances project config key qemu driver and version listed in server environment IOMMU groups listed … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 5 years ago

LXD 4.7 released with significant improvements in containers/VM management

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 4.7! This one comes with some very welcome VM improvements (USB and live memory updates), more backup features and a number of improvements on top of our OVN virtual network story. Enjoy! New features and … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 5 years ago

RaspberryPi 4 home lab with LXD cluster

Introduction Would you like a very compact, silent, yet surprisingly powerful home lab capable of running containers or virtual machines, accessible from any system on your network? That’s what’s possible these days using very cheap ARM boards like the Raspberry Pi. Those bo … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 5 years ago

LXD – next generation system container manager 4.3 released

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 4.3! This release comes with a lot of improvements especially for those using virtual machines. It also comes with quite a few bugfixes for our cluster users and general performance improvements. Enjoy! N … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 6 years ago

LTS release of system container manager LXD

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 4.0 LTS! This is the 3rd LTS release for LXD and a very busy and exciting one! The changelog below is split so that both users of LXD 3.23 and LXD 3.0 can see what we have in store for them. As with all o … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 6 years ago

Trying LXD Virtual Machines

Introduction LXD 3.19 will ship with virtual machine support. This effectively lets you mix and match containers and virtual machines on the same system based on the workloads you want to run. Those virtual machines use the same profiles, networks and storage pools as the contai … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 6 years ago

LXD 3.16 has been released

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 3.16! This release includes a number of new features, configuration options and improvements to the command line tool. Behind the scenes, a lot of work has gone into reworking the infrastructure used for c … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 7 years ago

LXD 3.15 has been released

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 3.15! This release both includes a number of major new features as well as some significant internal rework of various parts of LXD. One big highlight is the transition to the dqlite 1.0 branch which will … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 7 years ago

Trying Out `Shiftfs` with LXD

What’s shiftfs shiftfs is a kernel filesystem which was initially developed by James Bottomley, then stabilized and extended by @sforshee and @brauner. That filesystem acts like an overlay on top of an existing mount on the host and then allows mounting inside the container, shi … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 7 years ago

LXD 3.8 has been released

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 3.8! This is the last release for 2018 and is a pretty feature packed one, improving on a lot of previously introduced features. Enjoy! New features Automated container snapshots Three configuration keys … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 7 years ago

LXD 3.7 debuts support for container refreshes

Introduction The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 3.7! We started off this release cycle by fixing a number of issues and edge cases surrounding our recently introduced projects feature as more and more of our users started making use of it. But that’s no … | Continue reading


@discuss.linuxcontainers.org | 7 years ago