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Boxes (gnome-boxes)

Virtualization made simple

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Runs virtual machines through libvirt and KVM; there is no /dev/kvm for apps on Android.

Containers and virtual machines

PlatformStandardVM
Android, ARM64UnsupportedUntested
GooglebookOS, ARM64UnsupportedUntested
GooglebookOS, x86-64UnsupportedUntested
ChromeOS, ARM64UnsupportedUntested
ChromeOS, x86-64UnsupportedUntested

About Boxes (gnome-boxes)

From the project's description

Select an operating system and let Boxes download and install it for you in a virtual machine.

Features:

  • Download freely available operating systems
  • Automatically install CentOS Stream, Debian, Fedora, Microsoft Windows, OpenSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu
  • Create virtual machines from operating system images with a couple of clicks
  • Limit the resources (memory and storage) your virtual machines consume from your system
  • Take snapshots of virtual machines to restore to previous states
  • Redirect USB devices from your physical machine into virtual machines
  • 3D acceleration for some of the supported operating systems
  • Automatically resize virtual machines displays to the window size
  • Share clipboard between your system and virtual machines
  • Share files to virtual machines by dropping them from your file manager into the Boxes window
  • Setup Shared Folders between your system and virtual machines

From the project's AppStream metadata in Debian's gnome-boxes package, under CC0-1.0.

Developer
The GNOME Project
Keywords
virtual machine, vm
Menu categories
Emulators, Development, System

Dependencies

Depends on

  • genisoimage
  • libosinfo-bin
  • libvirt-daemon-system
  • user-session-migration
  • dconf-gsettings-backendorgsettings-backend
  • libarchive13t64
  • libc6
  • libcairo2
  • libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
  • libglib2.0-0t64
  • libgtk-3-0t64
  • libgudev-1.0-0
  • libhandy-1-0
  • libosinfo-1.0-0
  • libportal-gtk3-1
  • libportal1
  • libsoup-3.0-0
  • libspice-client-glib-2.0-8
  • libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5
  • libusb-1.0-0
  • libvirt-glib-1.0-0
  • libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0
  • libxml2

Sources and licenses

More in About the catalog.