Complete Guide: Installing xnbd-server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2025

1. Install "xnbd-server" package

This tutorial shows how to install xnbd-server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                xnbd-server
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "xnbd-server" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall xnbd-server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                xnbd-server
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xnbd-server package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: xnbd-server
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 150
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Arno Töll
Architecture: amd64
Source: xnbd
Version: 0.3.0-1ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.16), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), xnbd-common (= 0.3.0-1ubuntu1), python:any
Filename: pool/universe/x/xnbd/xnbd-server_0.3.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 38108
MD5sum: f4b351301e0d88cd6f5f30272e074c72
SHA1: fdd783f71d99ee0b5402edd57158cf83e47c2960
SHA256: d51172848276aa1dc7004b5e0459b6ab35a67cc341147448d2e25db83dd5939a
Description-en: Network Block Device server with support for live migration
xNBD is a NBD (Network Block Device) server program, which is fully compatible
with the NBD client driver of Linux kernel. It adds extended features to the
traditional NBD server:
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* Better performance
* Support for distributed copy-on-write disks
* Live storage migration for virtual machines.
* IPv6 support.
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This is the server side of the program
Description-md5: ce794a3adb66ce21602f4e761cf7fe73
Homepage: https://bitbucket.org/hirofuchi/xnbd/wiki/Home
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu