> the differentiating feature between lxd and podman seems to be that lxd can manage full virtual machines LXD is a management layer over LXC and Qemu(KVM?).

> the differentiating feature between lxd and podman seems to be that lxd can manage full virtual machines LXD is a management layer over LXC and Qemu(KVM?). LXC is all about system containers. The Qemu support is a recent addition [1]. LXD supported only LXC system containers until then. > Containers you run with docker and podman are fully capable of running multiple processes Yes. I have done this. But it was very unwieldy - probably because docker, podman etc weren't designed to run system containers. [1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/lxd-virtual-machines-an-overview https://ubuntu.com/blog/lxd-virtual-machines-an-overview