GNOME Boxes: Virtualization made simple
summary
GNOME Boxes packs libvirt and QEMU inside a Flatpak container and delivers working features: automatic express installs for Fedora/EL/Debian/openSUSE, drag‑and‑drop via SPICE, VNC/RDP/SSH remote connections, auto‑created snapshots, and folder sharing moving from WebDAV to virtiofs for much faster I/O. It now exports/imports appliances as an import/export OVA archive (single‑disk support today) and enables GPU passthrough in Flatpak by using a host device portal to unload drivers and reassign PCI devices; these features are implemented and demonstrably functional.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:12Use cases
- 3:08Libraries
- 4:07Express installations
- 5:08Drag and drop
- 6:02Boxes
- 6:59Unstable Boxes
- 7:09Detected Sources
- 8:04Fedora Superboo
- 8:42Installation
- 10:18Working Progress
- 15:57First boot
- 22:32Install it images
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