Category Archives: LXD

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.8!

This is the last release for 2024 but it still packs a punch with a bunch of VM related improvements, including the ability to move a running VM between storage pools, a new authorization backend, improvements to volume handling for application containers and more.

The highlights for this release are:

• Storage live migration for VMs
• Authorization scriptlet
• Console screenshots for VMs
• Initial owner and mode for custom storage volumes
• Small updates to the OpenFGA model
• Image alias reuse on import
• New incus-simplestreams prune command
• Console access locking

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

Some of the Incus maintainers will be present at FOSDEM 2025, helping run both the containers and kernel devrooms. For those arriving in town early, there will be a “Friends of Incus” gathering sponsored by FuturFusion on Thursday evening (January 30th), you can find the details of that here.

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.7!

This is another one of those pretty well rounded releases with new features and improvements for everyone from standalone users to those running a small homelab all the way to large scale cluster users, there’s something for everyone!

The highlights for this release are:

• Easy access to the Incus web interface
• Automatic cluster re-balancing
• DHCP renewal for OCI containers
• Partial instance/volume refresh
• Configurable columns, formatting and refresh time for incus top
• Support for DHCP address ranges in OVN networks
• Changing of parent device for physical networks
• Aditional QMP helpers in QEMU scriptlet
• Additional QEMU log file for QMP commands
• New get_instances_count command for placement scriptlet
• Support of formatting in incus admin sql command

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

A slightly less busy release this time, mostly due to traveling to the Linux Plumbers Conference and associated events a few weeks ago.

But still far from a boring release. On top of the usual bugfix and performance improvements, we’re getting a number of nice additions for virtual machines, improved clustered LVM support, improvements to incus-migrate and a number of new network features!

The highlights for this release are:

• OS info for virtual machines
• Console history for virtual machines
• Ability to create clustered LVM volume groups
• QCOW2 and VMDK support in incus-migrate
• Configurable macvlan mode
• Load-balancer health information
• External interfaces in OVN networks
• Parallel cluster evacuation/restoration

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

This release contains a very good mix of bug fixes and performances improvements as well as exciting new features across the board!

The highlights for this release are:

• Instance auto-restart
• Column selection in all list commands
• QMP command hooks and scriptlet
• Live disk resize for VMs
• PCI devices hotplug for VMs
• OVN load-balancer health checks
• OVN Interconnect ECMP support
• OVN NICs promiscuous mode
• OVN NICs disabling of IP allocation
• Configurable LVM PV metadata size
• Configurable OVS socket path

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!

This release builds upon the recently added OCI support from Incus 6.3, making it even easier to run application containers. It also adds a number of useful new features for clustered and larger environments with more control on the virtual CPU used when live migrating VMs and finer grained resource constraints within projects.

The highlights for this release are:

• Cluster group configuration
• Per-cluster group CPU baseline
• Attaching sub-directories of custom storage volumes
• Per storage pool project limits
• Isolated OVN networks (no uplink)
• Per-instance LXCFS
• Environment files at create/launch time

The full announcement and changelog can be found here.
And for those who prefer videos, here’s the release overview video:

You can take the latest release of Incus up for a spin through our online demo service at: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

And as always, my company is offering commercial support on Incus, ranging from by-the-hour support contracts to one-off services on things like initial migration from LXD, review of your deployment to squeeze the most out of Incus or even feature sponsorship. You’ll find all details of that here: https://zabbly.com/incus

Donations towards my work on this and other open source projects is also always appreciated, you can find me on Github Sponsors, Patreon and Ko-fi.

Enjoy!