GNOME Boxes is a simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems. It is based on a design from Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner.
Use cases
- Connect to a local virtual machine for testing.
- Connecting to a work machine from home.
- Connect to a work machine over a low quality cellular network.
Rationale
While virt-manager does a very good job as a virtual machine management software, its very much tailored for system administration and virtual machines. Boxes on the other hand is targeted towards typical desktop end-user who either just want a very safe and easy way to try out new operating systems or new (potentially unstable) versions of her/his favorite operating system(s), or need to connect to a remote machine (home-office connection being a typical use-case). For this reason, Boxes will not provide many of the advanced options to tweak virtual machines provided by virt-manager. Instead Boxes will focus on getting things working out of the box with very little input from user.
That said, Boxes will be sharing a lot of code-base with virt-manager project, mainly in the form of libvirt, libosinfo (not yet used by virt-manager) and qemu.
Requirements:
- Build-time:
libvirt-glib
qemu
libosinfo
gudev
vala (not if building from release tarballs)
gtk+
clutter-gtk
- Run-time:
shared-mime-info
Product's homepage
Here are some key features of "GNOME Boxes":
View, access, and use:
· remote machines
· remote virtual machines
· local virtual machines
· When technology permits, set up access for applications on local virtual machines
· View, access, and use virtual machines on removable media
· View, access, and use shared connection / machines
· Share connections?
· Upload / publish virtual machines
· Select favorites
· Search for connections
Requirements:
· GNOME
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Make use of new libosinfo API to avoid starting installation in language unsupported by installer media.
· Add smartcard support. If --enable-smartcard support is passed we create new VMs with smartcard support, or let you add it to old VMs.
· Ensure driver files cache is up2date and unique.
· Once installation is complete, Eject CDROM. Delete installer files.
· Make the progressbar on wizard's preparation page more useful by showing progress of media detection and drivers download and keeping user informed about current activity.
· Adapt to Clutter 1.12 and Gtk+ 3.2.
· Added/updated/fixed translations: Assamese Belarusian Bulgarian Estonian Galician Hebrew Hungarian Lithuanian Norwegian bokmÃ¥l Polish Slovenian Spanish
· Remove now redundant Vala API files.
· Some other functional and non-functional improvements and fixes.
Dependencies changed:
· libosinfo >= 0.2.3
· libvirt-gobject >= 0.1.5
· libvirt-gconfig >= 0.1.5
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