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A GNOME application to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.

GNOME Boxes is a virtualization GUI application designed to just work and be easy to use.

Users can view remote systems and virtual machines on other computers as well as locally. Local virtual machines can be created from standard disk image files, such as ISOs.

The developers state:

Boxes [...] 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).

Boxes page on GNOME wiki

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How to Install the new Gnome Boxes?

How can I install the new virtual machine app Boxes (https://live.gnome.org/Boxes) in Ubuntu?
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One click GPU passthrough to VM in Gnome-Boxes?

Felipe Borges, Gnome Developer, spoke last year about new feature in gnome-boxes that allow simple PCI GPU passthrough to VM. However, I can't find any information on the gnome documentation or examples of someone using the new GPU passthrough…
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GNOME-Boxes vs VirtualBox

Which would be "faster" more "responsive" virtual machine software? GNOME-Boxes or VirtualBox?
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How to access the internet from a virtual machine in Gnome Boxes?

I installed Gnome Boxes, created a new virtual machine and booted an ISO. The ISO boots up fine and the network inside the virtual machine got automatically configured by the distro (with dhcpd): IP enp0s3 got the IP 10.0.2.15 DNS nameserver:…
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Using gnome-boxes with Remote Desktop Connection

In the past I used to connect to my Windows server from Ubuntu with remmina (through rdp protocol). I've recently installed Ubuntu gnome remix (12.10.1) and gnome-boxes and I'm wondering if I can do the same with gnome-boxes. I've tried creating a…
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Gnome Boxes in Ubuntu: Can't leave Fullscreen mode

I'm running Gnome Boxes in Ubuntu 16.10 to virtualize Windows XP, but when I press the fullscreen button, the only way to go back to the host is to power off the virtual machine. Does anyone knows how to solve this? OBS: I've installed the SPICE…
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"No KVM" error for Windows iso file in GNOME Boxes

I am trying to start a Windows 11 VM in GNOME Boxes, but I get the below error.
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GNOME Boxes : move images to another hard drive

I would like to find a way to have my GNOME Boxes images on another hard drive because my main partition has very limited storage. I've just done some research and it seems that GNOME Boxes doesn't support choosing/moving the images of its virtual…
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Gnome Boxes unable to connect to internet on VM

I am trying to set up a Lab for RHCSA and have 3 virtual machines running Centos 7. I can't get the machines to see each other on the network, I also can't ping anything from the VM as well as I can't reach any VM from the host running Ubuntu 16.04.…
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Gnome-boxes won't start on one account but will on another

Gnome-boxes begins to start then crashes on my account. However, I created another account and boxes loaded fine. I tried to delete the files in ~/.config and ~/.share but no luck. When I launch from the CL I get the following…
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How can I save the state of a virtual machine in GNOME Boxes?

I used to use virt-manager with QEMU, however now I've started using gnome-boxes due to some issues with the other one. A feature however which gnome-boxes appears to lack is one to allow you like the other program and most ones of this kind, to…
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Higher than 1440p in Gnome Boxes with Spice?

Is it possible to increase the maximum resolution in Gnome Boxes(QEMU KVM) to 4K? Currently it is limited to 1440p. I'm using the Spice drivers. Host: Ubuntu 15.10 w/ GNOME Guest: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
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Trouble getting a bridge working with GNOME Boxes

I set up a Fedora VM using GNOME Boxes. I can launch it, everything's OK. I'm using virt-manager and I want to create a bridge so that I can get the VM on the network, but every time I attempt switching the NIC mode from usermode networking to…
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How to configure UEFI guests in Gnome-Boxes?

I'm currently testing mainline kernels which is why I can't use VirtualBox at the moment, thus I'm looking at the other options available and Gnome-Boxes looks neat. Trying to import my VirtualBox UEFI VDIs however results in non-bootable VMs…
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Gnome Boxes ISO Issue

I am trying to open an iso file with Gnome boxes but as I click open it says "Box set-up failed" and the terminal gives the following output: (gnome-boxes:15984): Boxes-WARNING **: wizard.vala:463: Failed to create volume: internal error: creation…
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