Follow these steps to install lxd containers on Ubuntu 14.04. Please note this worked for me on my ubuntu14.04 box running on AWS ec2 instance.
To install lxd containers on Ubuntu it requires that you install lxd using backports. If you dont know what backports are you can read more about them here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
- Active backports
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
Uncomment lines 45 and 46, save and quit. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -t trusty-backports install lxd -y
sudo lxd init
- This will prompt some questions about some basic configuration stuff. Follow the steps.