Container Hypervisor LXD Surpasses KVM in Benchmark Tests

Debuting in the Ubuntu 15.04 release last month, Canonical-backed Linux container hypervisor LXD has been proven to run guest machines at 14.5 times more densely and with 57 percent less latency than Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM), which should likely convince many organizations of the virtues of container virtualization.