Install latest/stable of GNOME Boxes

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.

Install using the command line

sudo snap install gnome-boxes

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Virtualization made simple

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.

Details for GNOME Boxes

License

GPL-3.0-or-later

Last updated

9 January 2024 - latest/stable
2 January 2024 - latest/candidate

Contact

github.com

Report a bug

github.com

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