--- title: Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu... description: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will introduce a new virtualization hardware enablement (HWE) stack to support the latest AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX confidential computing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-to-provide-virtualization-hwe-stack-for-ubuntu-26-04-lts-hoxcprhta twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | daily.dev og:description: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will introduce a new virtualization hardware enablement (HWE) stack to support the latest AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX confidential computing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-to-provide-virtualization-hwe-stack-for-ubuntu-26-04-lts-hoxcprhta og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HoxcpRHTa.png og:image:alt: Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will introduce a new virtualization hardware enablement (HWE) stack to support the latest AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX confidential computing features. Future point releases will ship updated versions of QEMU, libvirt, EDK2, and SeaBIOS via new '-hwe' suffixed packages, updated every six months to track upstream. Users who prefer stable stock versions can simply avoid the HWE-suffixed packages. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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