virtception –
We took Gnome Boxes for a quick spin — it has promise but needs more work.
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Yes, you can just install Gnome Boxes from Software Center — but I’m a sysadmin at heart; I used apt instead. Jim Salter I really like the Welcome Tutorial that Boxes gives you. It’s short, to the point, and exposes features you’d likely miss otherwise. Jim Salter The easy downloads is a pretty nifty feature — you don’t need to hunt down install ISOs; Boxes already knows where they are and will fetch them for you. Jim Salter The drag-and-drop functionality works as advertised — with a Linux guest and a Gnome3 desktop, anyway. Jim Salter
Gnome Boxes
- Yes, you can just install Gnome Boxes from Software Center — but I’m a sysadmin at heart; I used apt instead. Jim Salter I really like the Welcome Tutorial that Boxes gives you. It’s short, to the point, and exposes features you’d likely miss otherwise. Jim Salter The easy downloads is a pretty nifty feature — you don’t need to hunt down install ISOs; Boxes already knows where they are and will fetch them for you. Jim Salter The drag-and-drop functionality works as advertised — with a Linux guest and a Gnome3 desktop, anyway. Jim Salter
Gnome Boxes
- We had good results with an Ubuntu Focal Fossa guest, running on our Ubuntu Focal Fossa host system. Jim Salter
- When we resize the Boxes window, the Ubuntu Focal guest within it automatically changes its own video resolution to fit. Jim Salter
The extra integration is most evident when running Linux guests (virtual machines), where virtio drivers are always available and libvirt integration is at a maximum. When we tested an Ubuntu Focal Fossa guest, the guest’s video resolution dynamically and automatically as we resized its window on the host operating system — and files dragged from the host’s file explorer onto the Boxes window were automatically transferred into the guest, where they showed up in the logged-in user’s Downloads folder.
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