Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) release [20241216]
The Ubuntu 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
KVM
When launching the download image from KVM, you will need to specify the virtio network driver.
LXD
First add the new Ubuntu images simplestreams endpoint:
lxc remote add --protocol simplestreams ubuntu https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/
Launch the focal image:
lxc launch ubuntu:focal
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Parent Directory - Current Released Image ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-armhf.img 2024-12-17 19:28 900M Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-armhf.tar.gz 2024-12-17 19:28 825M Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-azure.vhd.tar.gz 2024-12-17 19:28 622M Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img 2024-12-17 19:28 608M Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.img 2024-12-17 19:29 600M Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova 2024-12-17 19:28 592M Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.vmdk 2024-12-17 19:28 592M Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.img 2024-12-17 19:28 587M Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds 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Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-armhf.release.20241112.20241216.image_changelog.json 2024-12-17 19:28 556K Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.release.20241112.20241216.image_changelog.json 2024-12-17 19:29 446K Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-s390x.release.20241112.20241216.image_changelog.json 2024-12-17 19:29 446K Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-arm64.release.20241112.20241216.image_changelog.json 2024-12-17 19:28 446K Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.release.20241112.20241216.image_changelog.json 2024-12-17 19:28 446K Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.daily.20241127.20241216.image_changelog.json 2024-12-17 19:29 376K Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released 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ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-armhf-lxd.tar.xz 2024-12-17 19:28 832 Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-lxd.tar.xz 2024-12-17 19:28 832 Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-s390x-lxd.tar.xz 2024-12-17 19:29 828 Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-arm64-lxd.tar.xz 2024-12-17 19:28 828 Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-lxd.tar.xz 2024-12-17 19:28 824 Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released builds unpacked/ 2024-12-17 19:31 - Current Released Image