GNOME Boxes


GNOME Boxes is an application of the GNOME Desktop Environment, used to access remote or virtual systems. Boxes uses the QEMU, KVM, and libvirt virtualization technologies.
GNOME Boxes requires the CPU to support some kind of hardware-assisted virtualization.

History and functionality

GNOME Boxes was initially introduced as beta software in GNOME 3.3 as of Dec 2011, and as a preview release in GNOME 3.4. Its primary functions are as a virtual machine manager, remote desktop client, 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.

People

Boxes was originally developed by Marc-André Lureau, , Alexander Larsson and and is currently being maintained and developed by .