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<h2>Virtual machines<a class="headerlink" href="#virtual-machines" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>The following operating systems (OS) were tested as virtual machine guest running on top of on LXD <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">5.21/stable</span></code>. Each OS was tested by doing a manual installation using the official ISO as provided by the vendor.</p>
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<th class="head text-left"><p>OS version</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>OS support</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p><a class="reference internal" href="#lxd-agent">LXD agent</a></p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>VirtIO-SCSI</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>VirtIO-BLK</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>NVMe</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>CSM (BIOS)</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>UEFI</p></th>
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<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>CentOS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>CentOS 6.10 <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id17" id="id2" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>1<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>EOL</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id18" id="id3" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>2<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id22" id="id4" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>6<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>CentOS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>CentOS 7.9</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>EOL</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id18" id="id5" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>2<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>CentOS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>CentOS 8.5</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>EOL</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>CentOS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>CentOS 8-Stream</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>EOL</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>CentOS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>CentOS 9-Stream</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Red Hat</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>RHEL 7.9</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>EOL</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id18" id="id6" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>2<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Red Hat</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>RHEL 8.10</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Red Hat</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>RHEL 9.4</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>SUSE</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>SLES 12 SP5</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>SUSE</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>SLES 15 SP6</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>14.04.6 LTS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>EOL</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id23" id="id7" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>7<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>16.04.7 LTS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>ESM</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id24" id="id8" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>8<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a><a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id25" id="id9" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>9<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>18.04.6 LTS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>ESM</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id25" id="id10" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>9<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>20.04.6 LTS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>22.04.4 LTS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>24.04.1 LTS</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Windows</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Server 2012</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>➖</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Windows</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Server 2016</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>➖</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢 <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id19" id="id11" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>3<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id21" id="id12" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>5<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Windows</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Server 2019</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>➖</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id21" id="id13" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>5<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Windows</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Server 2022</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>➖</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id21" id="id14" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>5<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Windows</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>10 22H2</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>➖</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id21" id="id15" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>5<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Windows</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>11 23H2 <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id20" id="id16" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>4<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>Supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>➖</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="table-wrapper colwidths-auto docutils container">
<table class="docutils align-default">
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head text-left"><p>Legend</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>Icon</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>recommended</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>not applicable</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>➖</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>not supported</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</section>
<section id="notes">
<h2>Notes<a class="headerlink" href="#notes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<section id="lxd-agent">
<h3>LXD agent<a class="headerlink" href="#lxd-agent" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>The LXD agent provides the ability to execute commands inside of the virtual machine guest without relying on traditional access solution like secure shell (SSH) or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). This agent is only supported on Linux guests using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">systemd</span></code>.
For how to manually setup the agent, see <a class="reference internal" href="../howto/instances_create/#lxd-agent-manual-install"><span class="std std-ref">Install the LXD agent into virtual machine instances</span></a>.</p>
</section>
<section id="bios-boot">
<h3>BIOS boot<a class="headerlink" href="#bios-boot" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>lxc<span class="w"> </span>config<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">set</span><span class="w"> </span>v1<span class="w"> </span>boot.mode<span class="o">=</span>bios
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="virtual-tpm">
<h3>Virtual TPM<a class="headerlink" href="#virtual-tpm" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>lxc<span class="w"> </span>config<span class="w"> </span>device<span class="w"> </span>add<span class="w"> </span>v1<span class="w"> </span>vtpm<span class="w"> </span>tpm<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">path</span><span class="o">=</span>/dev/tpm0
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="virtio-blk-or-nvme">
<h3>VirtIO-BLK or NVMe<a class="headerlink" href="#virtio-blk-or-nvme" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>lxc<span class="w"> </span>config<span class="w"> </span>device<span class="w"> </span>override<span class="w"> </span>v1<span class="w"> </span>root<span class="w"> </span>io.bus<span class="o">=</span>virtio-blk
<span class="c1"># or</span>
lxc<span class="w"> </span>config<span class="w"> </span>device<span class="w"> </span>override<span class="w"> </span>v1<span class="w"> </span>root<span class="w"> </span>io.bus<span class="o">=</span>nvme
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="disconnect-the-iso">
<h3>Disconnect the ISO<a class="headerlink" href="#disconnect-the-iso" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>lxc<span class="w"> </span>config<span class="w"> </span>device<span class="w"> </span>remove<span class="w"> </span>v1<span class="w"> </span>iso
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section id="containers">
<h2>Containers<a class="headerlink" href="#containers" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Unlike virtual machines, container guests rely on the host’s kernel for execution. Since each Linux distribution ships with a unique set of features supported by their official kernels, the possibilities are almost endless.
As such, the following compatibility table focuses on hosts running Ubuntu LTS releases with LXD <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">5.21/stable</span></code> and Ubuntu releases as container guests. The main compatibility factor is the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cgroup</span></code> version required by the container and supported by the host.</p>
<div class="table-wrapper colwidths-auto docutils container">
<table class="docutils align-default">
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head text-left"><p>Host OS   /  Guest OS</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>Ubuntu 16.04 LTS</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>Ubuntu 18.04 LTS</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>Ubuntu 20.04 LTS</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>Ubuntu 22.04 LTS</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>Ubuntu 24.04 LTS</p></th>
<th class="head text-left"><p>Ubuntu 24.10</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0      <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id32" id="id26" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>10<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>❌ <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id33" id="id27" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>11<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.15.0 (HWE)</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢 <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id34" id="id28" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>12<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢 <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id35" id="id29" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>13<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 6.8.0 (HWE)</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢 <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id35" id="id30" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>13<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>✅</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td class="text-left"><p>Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0</p></td>
<td class="text-left"><p>🟢 <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id35" id="id31" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>13<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
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<p>No network support despite having VirtIO-NET module.</p>
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<span class="backrefs">(<a role="doc-backlink" href="#id3">1</a>,<a role="doc-backlink" href="#id5">2</a>,<a role="doc-backlink" href="#id6">3</a>)</span>
<p>Support for 9P or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">virtiofs</span></code> not available. Note: CentOS 7 has a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">kernel-plus</span></code> kernel with 9P support allowing LXD agent to work (with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">selinux=0</span></code>).</p>
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<p>NVMe disks are visible but the installer lists all 255 namespaces slowing down the initialization.</p>
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<p>A virtual TPM is required.</p>
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<span class="backrefs">(<a role="doc-backlink" href="#id12">1</a>,<a role="doc-backlink" href="#id13">2</a>,<a role="doc-backlink" href="#id14">3</a>,<a role="doc-backlink" href="#id15">4</a>)</span>
<p>The OS installer stalls when booting in CSM/BIOS mode.</p>
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<p>The OS installer stalls when booting with VirtIO-BLK despite having VirtIO-BLK supported by the kernel.</p>
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<p>This Linux version does not use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">systemd</span></code> which the LXD agent requires.</p>
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<p>Requires the HWE kernel (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">4.15</span></code>) for proper <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vsock</span></code> support which is required by the LXD agent.</p>
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<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">lxd-agent-installer</span></code> package is not available so <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">lxd-agent</span></code> has to be manually setup (see <a class="reference internal" href="../howto/instances_create/#lxd-agent-manual-install"><span class="std std-ref">Install the LXD agent into virtual machine instances</span></a>) or through <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cloud-init</span></code> (see <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/devices_disk/#vm-cloud-init-config"><span class="std std-ref">VM cloud-init</span></a>).</p>
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<p>The 5.4.0 kernel is below the minimum required version (see <a class="reference internal" href="../requirements/#requirements"><span class="std std-ref">Requirements</span></a>)</p>
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<p>Ubuntu 24.10 and later require <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cgroupv2</span></code> which is not supported by Ubuntu 20.04 LTS regular kernel.</p>
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<p>Requires enabling <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cgroupv2</span></code> support by booting with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1</span></code></p>
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<p>Requires enabling <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cgroupv1</span></code> support by booting with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0</span></code></p>
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