• How to install Boxes in Ubuntu

Boxes

Simple GNOME app to access virtual systems

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

GNOME Boxes is a desktop client to view or use local virtual machines. Boxes is intentionally simple and easy to use. . Hardware virtualization is required. . Previously, GNOME Boxes could also be used to connect to remote computers, but that feature is now provided by the GNOME Connections app.

Application Homepage

How to install Boxes in Ubuntu

If you are on a supported distro, you can install the application through software center by clicking the below link.

Install Boxes

If the above link not working, run the below command in terminal to install gnome-boxes in Ubuntu

sudo apt install gnome-boxes

Boxes Screenshots

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