GNOME Boxes lead developer Felipe Borges has been overhauling the application with a major rewrite and today announced the new beta release. GNOME Boxes has migrated to using the GTK4 toolkit and libadwaita. The new GNOME Boxes code can also handle installing Microsoft Windows 11 now without needing any manual workarounds for Secure Boot or TPM requirements.

The new GNOME Boxes code also introduces a VSOCK device for accessing VM contexts and other improvements. With the revamped GNOME Boxes, it’s also shifting to a Flatpak-first and only model for distributing of new GNOME Boxes releases.

  • the_weez@midwest.social
    14·
    2 days ago

    You can use virt-manager over ssh, and you only need libvirt installed so probably already good if it’s a vm host. It works better for me than a full gui over vnc.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      i tried that with x forwarding over ssh and it didn’t work all that well; what’s why i switched to vnc.

      • the_weez@midwest.social
        6·
        2 days ago

        Like arsecroft says, virt manager has this ability built into the application itself. You add another session to the ui and choose ssh. No X forwarding needed, no gui needed on the server at all, don’t need the virt manager app on the server just the client. Cockpit also works as a web based ui.

        • xthexder@l.sw0.com
          2·
          23 hours ago

          Oh that’s good to know. I’ve got roughly the same VNC setup with virt-manager, so I’ll have to try it out. I would get rid of this VM if I could, but it runs CI for my Windows builds. Since I daily Linux now, it’s the only way I’ll know if I break MSVC.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          NICE! i didn’t catch that part and thank you for making me aware.

          i did try cockpit and i had better luck with it too.

      • Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org
        71·
        2 days ago

        you can use ssh to forward the port and then use virt-manager locally to manage the remote server

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          i gave that a shot too. it works, it’s just that the vm management was only part of what i needed since it also controlled the sdn.