Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release [20261019]
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 stonking image:
lxc launch ubuntu:stonking
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