Boxes, also known as GNOME Boxes is an application of the GNOME Desktop Environment, used to access remote or virtual systems.
History and functionality.
GNOME Boxes was initially introduced as beta software in GNOME 3.3 (development branch for 3.4) as of Dec 2011, and as a preview release in GNOME 3.4.
Its primary functions are as a virtual machine manager and remote filesystem browser, utilizing the libvirt, libvirt-glib, and libosinfo technologies.
This enables the viewing of remote systems and virtual machines on other computers in addition to locally-created virtual machines.
Boxes possesses the ability to easily create local virtual machines from a standard disk image file, such as an ISO image while requiring minimum user input.
Boxes was originally developed by Marc-André Lureau, Zeeshan Ali, Alexander Larsson and Christophe Fergeau and is currently being maintained and developed by Zeeshan Ali.
Features.
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.
Build-time:
libvirt-glib
qemu
libosinfo
gudev
vala (not if building from release tarballs)
gtk+
clutter-gtk
Run-time:
shared-mime-info
Download.
Screenshots.
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History and functionality.
GNOME Boxes was initially introduced as beta software in GNOME 3.3 (development branch for 3.4) as of Dec 2011, and as a preview release in GNOME 3.4.
Its primary functions are as a virtual machine manager and remote filesystem browser, utilizing the libvirt, libvirt-glib, and libosinfo technologies.
This enables the viewing of remote systems and virtual machines on other computers in addition to locally-created virtual machines.
Boxes possesses the ability to easily create local virtual machines from a standard disk image file, such as an ISO image while requiring minimum user input.
Boxes was originally developed by Marc-André Lureau, Zeeshan Ali, Alexander Larsson and Christophe Fergeau and is currently being maintained and developed by Zeeshan Ali.
Features.
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.
Build-time:
libvirt-glib
qemu
libosinfo
gudev
vala (not if building from release tarballs)
gtk+
clutter-gtk
Run-time:
shared-mime-info
Download.
Screenshots.
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