However starting from lxd 3 19 it is possible to create virtual machines as well.
Machine container lxd.
It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using linux containers instead.
It s image based with pre made images available for a wide number of linux distributions and is built around a very powerful yet pretty simple rest api.
Lxd is an open source hypervisor that is secure lightweight and very easy to use.
The linux kernel provides the cgroups functionality that allows limitation and prioritization of resources cpu memory block i o network etc without the need for starting any virtual machines and also namespace.
Lxd is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager.
Now that the daemon is all configured and running you can create a container.
Traditionally lxd is used to create system containers light weight virtual machines that use linux container features and not hardware virtualization.
Lxc linux containers is an operating system level virtualization method for running multiple isolated linux systems containers on a control host using a single linux kernel.
Virtual machines are a new instance type supported by lxd alongside containers.
For juju users lxd makes it easy to create a cloud in your laptop.
That is now with lxd you can create both system containers and virtual machines.
This feature is currently considered to be experimental with a lot of functionality still yet to be implemented in order to reach feature parity with containers.
Lxd 4 0 is the third lts release for lxd and will be supported for 5 years until june 2025.
One comes pre configured in lxd called images.
The stable release of lxd the machine container hypervisor is now available.
Lxd has two parts the daemon the lxd binary and the client the lxc binary.
Lxc launch ubuntu 16 04 alternatively you can also use a remote lxd host as a source of images.
It offers a unified user experience around full linux systems running inside containers or virtual machines.
Need to install lxd.
It s image based with pre made images available for a wide number of linux distributions and is built around a very powerful yet pretty simple rest api.
With the addition of virtual machine support through qemu it is now possible to manage a mixed deployment of virtual machines and containers sharing the same configuration storage and networks.
Lxd is a next generation system container manager.
It provides secure system containers based on the lxc functionality within the linux kernel and virtual machines via qemu.
