Rocky & Alma Linux 10 images available for LXC and Incus containers

Good news for everyone working with LXC and Incus containers: Rocky and Alma Linux 10 container images are now available to install.

The official image server shows the 10 release added on August 27th 2025:

Rocky Linux 10 image now available as LXC and Incus image

The combined work of Stéphane Graber (LXC and Incus maintainer), Michael Stauber and others allowed the tackle the initial issues with the package manager inside the image template.

The lxc-download template now shows almalinux and rockylinux release 10 as available container installation on amd64 and arm64 architectures:

root@linux ~ # lxc-create -n mylxc -t download -- -l | egrep "(alma|rocky)"
almalinux	10	amd64	default	20250908_23:08
almalinux	10	arm64	default	20250908_23:16
almalinux	8	amd64	default	20250908_23:08
almalinux	8	arm64	default	20250908_23:08
almalinux	9	amd64	default	20250908_23:08
almalinux	9	arm64	default	20250908_23:08
rockylinux	10	amd64	default	20250909_02:06
rockylinux	10	arm64	default	20250909_02:06
rockylinux	8	amd64	default	20250909_02:06
rockylinux	8	arm64	default	20250909_02:06
rockylinux	9	amd64	default	20250909_02:06
rockylinux	9	arm64	default	20250909_02:06

The following example shows how to create a new LXC container with Rocky Linux 10 installed:

root@linux ~ # lxc-create -n rocky10 -t download -- -d rockylinux -r 10 -a amd64
Downloading the image index
Downloading the rootfs
Downloading the metadata
The image cache is now ready
Unpacking the rootfs

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You just created a Rockylinux 10 x86_64 (20250909_02:06) container.

Note: You might want to use dedicated file system for a container, see lxc-create –help for different options.

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