Canonical Developing LXD As A New Linux Hypervisor Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 4 November 2014 at 09:58 AM EST. 33 Comments Canonical's latest effort for pushing Ubuntu further in the cloud and within enterprises is LXD, a new high-performance hypervisor derived from the concepts of LXC. Canonical's LXD aims for "[taking] all the speed and efficiency of docker, and turn it into a full