I disagree. A Hypervisor is a supervisor and part of the control plane for virtual machines. LXD is something which is trying to span the virtual machine world

I disagree. A Hypervisor is a supervisor and part of the control plane for virtual machines. LXD is something which is trying to span the virtual machine world to containers. Read Ubuntu's page about it here: http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/lxd http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/lxd