Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) releases [20210422]

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:

• Released Image locator
• Daily 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

 Name                                                  Last modified      Size  Description
 Parent Directory                                                           -   Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds
 ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-uefi1.img         2021-04-24 01:47  172M  QCow2 UEFI/GPT Bootable disk image
 ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img         2021-04-24 01:47  165M  QCow2 Disk image
 ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.gz       2021-04-24 01:47  131M  File system image and Kernel packed
 ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.squashfs          2021-04-24 01:47  106M  Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds
 ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz       2021-04-24 01:47   84M  Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds
 ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.manifest          2021-04-24 01:47  9.9K  Package manifest file
 ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.squashfs.manifest 2021-04-24 01:47  9.2K  Package manifest file
 ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.manifest     2021-04-24 01:47  9.2K  Package manifest file
 SHA256SUMS                                            2022-09-02 18:43  1.0K  Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds
 ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-lxd.tar.xz        2021-04-24 01:47  888   Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds
 SHA256SUMS.gpg                                        2022-09-02 18:43  836   Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds
 MD5SUMS.gpg                                           2022-09-02 18:43  836   Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds
 MD5SUMS                                               2022-09-02 18:43  735   Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds
 unpacked/                                             2021-04-24 01:47    -   Ubuntu Minimal 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released builds