GNOME Boxes
 The box creation "Source Selection" screen for Boxes 3.4. | |
| Developer(s) | GNOME project |
|---|---|
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| Platform | GNOME |
| Website | live |
Boxes, also known as GNOME Boxes is an application of the GNOME Desktop Environment, used to access remote or virtual file systems.
History and Functionality
GNOME Boxes was initially introduced as beta software in GNOME 3.2 as of Dec 2011, and as a final release in GNOME 3.4.[1] Its primary functions are as a virtual machine manager and remote filesystem browser, utilizing the libvirt, libvirt-glib, and libosinfo technologies.[2] 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 create local virtual machines from a standard disk image file, such as an ISO image.
People
Boxes is currently being developed and maintained by Marc-André Lureau, Zeeshan Ali, and Christophe Fergeau.[3]
See Also
- Virtual Box
- Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
- VMware Workstation
- List of GNOME applications
References
External Links
- https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Boxes
- http://www.iloveubuntu.net/gnome-boxes-335-available-ubuntu-1204-ppa
- http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/GNOME-developers-create-Boxes-for-virtualisation-1383765.html
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