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I've only ever used KVM from guest end user side and not from host node side. And only used LXD briefly for some Centmin Mod benchmark testing https://community.centminmod.com/threads/php-7-x-benchmarks-centmin-mod-vs-easyengine-vs-webinoly-vs-vestacp-vs-oneinstack.14988/. LXD was fun to work with from that other side though and something I'd eventually want to look at a bit more in the future. But I think most folks are more familiar with KVM so I'd lean that way.
I do know Kinsta folks use LXD/LXC for their operations https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/what-you-should-know/
Googling https://www.ispsystem.com/news/lxd-vs-kvm-news which mentions VMmanager https://www.ispsystem.com/software/vmmanager which allows you to manage both QEMU/KVM-based virtualization and LXD/LXC container environments.
One of the difficulties of lxd is how to limit the hard disk, which seems to have a good limit in other virtualization technologies, but it is not satisfactory in lxd.
lxdware is a good option, but not perfect.
I've been using it since 2016 on the desktop side as frontend/porcelain to manage lxc containers.
KVM is a hypervisor. Lxd is just a higher level management semantics for kvm/lxc, kinda like proxmox but without the gui.