Canonical today released LXD 6.7 as the latest feature update to this system container and virtual machine manager commonly used in Ubuntu Linux environments.
Most notable with today’s LXD 6.7 release is introducing AMD GPU passthrough support via the AMD CDI interface. LXD can now support AMD GPU passthrough for containers using the AMD CDI container toolkit bundled into the Snap package. This depends upon a new “gpu_cdi_amd” extension for the Container Device Interface (CDI) specification to configure the AMD GPU passthrough for LXD containers.
An example AMD GPU passthrough setup with LXD can be done using a command such as:
lxc config device add [instance_name] [device_name] gpu gputype=physical id=amd.com/gpu=0
LXD 6.7 also improves the VM GPU passthrough support in general with major new QEMU and EDK2 versions.
The LXD 6.7 is also further improved with enhancing the initial access to the LXD UI, storage pool database recovery support for clusters, forced instance deletion through the API, optimized instance state field retrieval, and support for x86_64-v3 architecture variant images.
More details on today’s LXD 6.7 release via the release announcement.
