GNOME Boxes
The box creation "Source Selection" screen for Boxes 3.5.
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| Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
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| Stable release | 3.14.3 (December 19, 2014) [±][1] |
| Preview release | 3.15.4 (January 21, 2015) [±][2] |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C, Vala |
| Platform | GNOME |
| License | GNU GPL[3] |
| Website | wiki |
Boxes, also known as GNOME Boxes is an application of the GNOME Desktop Environment, used to access remote or virtual systems.
History and functionality[edit]
GNOME Boxes was initially introduced as beta software in GNOME 3.3 (development branch for 3.4) as of Dec 2011,[4] and as a preview release in GNOME 3.4.[5] Its primary functions are as a virtual machine manager and remote filesystem browser, utilizing the libvirt, libvirt-glib, and libosinfo technologies.[6] 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[edit]
Boxes was originally developed by Marc-André Lureau, Zeeshan Ali, Alexander Larsson and Christophe Fergeau[7] and is currently being maintained and developed by Zeeshan Ali.
See also[edit]
- VirtualBox
- Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
- VMware Workstation
- List of GNOME applications
References[edit]
- ^ "GNOME 3.14.3". GNOME mailing list. December 19, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
- ^ "GNOME 3.15.x Development Series". Retrieved February 26, 2015.
- ^ https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-boxes/tree/COPYING
- ^ "GNOME developers create Boxes for virtualisation". The H. November 23, 2011.
- ^ "A Second Release Of GNOME Boxes Is Boxed Up". Michael Larabel. Phoronix. December 21, 2011.
- ^ "Boxes on GNOME wiki! GNOME 3.3.x Development Series". Retrieved September 30, 2012.
- ^ "Boxes on GNOME wiki!". Retrieved September 30, 2012.
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