Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) releases [20201111]
The Ubuntu Minimal Cloud image can be run on your personal Ubuntu Cloud, or on public clouds that provide Ubuntu Certified Images.
To find a listing of our public images on supported Clouds, please use the Cloud Image Locator:
Cloud image specific bugs should be filed in the cloud-images project on Launchpad.net.
Launching Ubuntu Minimal
KVM
When launching the download image from KVM, you will need to specify the virtio network driver.
LXD
First add the new Ubuntu Minimal images simplestreams endpoint:
lxc remote add --protocol simplestreams ubuntu-minimal https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/
Launch the xenial minimal image:
lxc launch ubuntu-minimal:xenial
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Parent Directory - Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.gz 2020-11-12 11:02 130M File system image and Kernel packed ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.manifest 2020-11-12 11:02 9.2K Package manifest file ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.manifest 2020-11-12 11:02 9.9K Package manifest file ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.squashfs.manifest 2020-11-12 11:02 9.2K Package manifest file ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img 2020-11-12 11:02 164M QCow2 Disk image ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-uefi1.img 2020-11-12 11:02 172M QCow2 UEFI/GPT Bootable disk image MD5SUMS 2022-09-02 10:39 735 Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds MD5SUMS.gpg 2022-09-02 10:39 836 Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds SHA256SUMS 2022-09-02 10:39 1.0K Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds SHA256SUMS.gpg 2022-09-02 10:39 836 Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-lxd.tar.xz 2020-11-12 11:02 888 Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz 2020-11-12 11:02 82M Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.squashfs 2020-11-12 11:02 105M Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds unpacked/ 2020-11-12 11:02 - Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds