A Look at GNOME Boxes Virtualization Software
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Lets's play with GNOME Boxes!
For Ubuntu 18.04:
Installation Command:
sudo apt install -yy gnome-boxes qemu-kvm libvirt-bin
Add User to kvm:
sudo usermod -a -G kvm $USER
Allow users in kvm group to start VMs:
sudo sed -i -e 's/\#group\ =\ "root"/group=kvm/g' /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
For Ubuntu 19.10:
Installation Command:
sudo apt install -yy gnome-boxes qemu-kvm
Add User to kvm:
sudo usermod -a -G kvm $USER
To get your Guest Additions-like drivers in GNOME Boxes, install the Spice Tools inside the VM
sudo apt install spice-vdagent spice-webdavd
GNOME Boxes Documentation: help.gnome.org/users/gnome-bo...
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Just found your channel and ended up watching loads of your videos and I have to say you're awesome. You show how to do stuff in such a human simple manner so easy to understand. You're the best I have seen on UA-cam in years. You're so funny and you show really good solid examples of what needs to be understood, when to use it and most of all how to use it.
Thank you so much for your videos, I'm hooked to your channel. lol
Before I go I think you should write some Linux book's as you would break it down in to fun and the basics. Well you have totally blown me away with how good your videos are, keep it going buddy.
Thanks for the very kind words... :)
Neat piece of software Joe! Thanks for sharing it with us.👌👍😎JP
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A: He turned the ka-nob!
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Thanks, Joe. I appreciate the overview. This is very helpful, and I intend to give it a spin.
*I love your Intro with your voice* ❤🌹
*I really really love it!*
Mr. Collins, its our version of thanks giving here in Canada today, im currently sitting after consuming a large sumptious meal..yes the button on my pants are undone..lol.. and I open my laptop and there it is.. another wonderful video that suits my relaxed state of being... with a glass of good ale next to me ..i watched and decided there is a very good reason why i have kept up with your content .. its like chatting with a good friend over a beer and learning something new.. i wasnt fussy about VB as i found it to be to cumbersome though i do know how to use it i too was looking for something simpler.... this appears to be an answer , so i will check Boxes out later..ummm..maybe after a nap..lol..cheers and have a good day
Thanks for the very kind words... :)
Thank you for this video. I got the Gnome boxes working om linux mint 19.2 with your instruktions, after restart of the system. I made my first virtual maskine without problems. Thanks!!
Nice clear screens... which don't hurt your eyes while you're watching... Thank You. That's a nice change for virtualization example videos.
Thank you!
That seems to open up a new world!
Go Go. Go Joe Go Go Go !! One more Great Video ! TY Man :)
Gnome and it's software truly Just Works.
Nice video Joe, TNX
Since a given version of Spice Guest Agent (I forgot which one exactly) automatic resize only occurs in _Gnome_ guests. However you can adapt/resize the display manually with `xrandr --output Virtual-0 --auto'. Strangely enough automatic resize does occur when restoring your VM window (go figure). It doesn't when *going* full-screen, only when *leaving* . At least with Linux Mint Debian Edition 3.
Thank you Joe.
I've not really looked at Boxes before, apart from trying it and not getting it to work. Gonna have to give it another go, ta!
@phillip martin Good to know, ta.
Thanks a ton. Cheerio !
I started to use Gnome Boxes after viewing your presentation and others. How about a follow-up presentation on how to activate USB's, etc. which I haven't been able to do yet. Also, with both Windows 7 and Windows 10, I have no VM audio. I'm sure it is something with my configuration.
I have a Thinkpad R61i with Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia installed. The CPU has no hardware virtualization.
I installed Boxes and attempted to install Damn Small Linux in a virtual machine. The live iso image booted, but I didn't get keyboards integration. Therefore I could not complete the install.
Does Boxes require hardware virtualization to function?
Boxes gave me an error message to the effect that the acceleration tab on system had the virtualization property enabled. This was invalid since my CPU does not support this feature. However after I disabled this property the save button remained grayed and could not save the change. Restating the virtual machine didn't work either.
I tried same on VirtualBox but VB requires hardware virtualization...
Great Video again. Worth noting is existing VirtualBox vdi. files can be selected as new machine and will be converted to run on Boxes. Thank you once again.
cool video dude. some good poop you are giving out. I installed it as you did the video. will give it a try. have a fun day.
Poop? I think Joe's content shouldn't ever be referred to as poop. I love anything & everything that he does on this channel.
Joe, I know you don't like Windows. But how Gnome-Boxes handle a Windows 10 in VM ? Or if anyone have tried it let me know.
Nice Video. I may have to give it a try. One question?
So when you are using XBT or BU or Timeshift , you will now be backing up the 20gig VM's times however many you have now.
Since Boxs stores it VM's in the ~/.local / **/** then every time XBT or BU or Timeshift is ran that is back-up too.
This to be a issue for me, as I for one keep my VM's on a separate drive (which I unmount when backing-up) and I don't see any reason to back them up the VM/s as I use them for testing... I do have 3 VM's that are stored on the server and when I need to use them I copy them over and use them from my local that way they are not touched.
I am not having the issues your having with VB I am still using v5 something. I know that 6 is out but that is work...Lol
Thanks Joe for the video! I will give it a looksee...
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Please, what do I have to do in order to place the VMs/guests images on an external disk?, may it be another internal SATA disk on my machine or an USB drive. Thanks
I noticed you didn't go online from inside Boxes.. I can't figure that out.. How can we get File manager to access the host computer ?
I'm trying to get an old version of Pycam to run on an old version of Ubuntu (10.04).. cuz, developers ruined Pycam.. It used to work great, but, after an upgrade, nobody can get it to run...
It is (was) the only CAM software available for Linux CNC, except for expensive ones, an now it's useless..
Hi. Great video. When I try to create a new virtual box. I got this message: 'Virtualization extensions are unavailable on your system. Check your BIOS settings to enable them.' What does that mean? and how to fix it? Thank you very much.
How to bridge network for virtual machine?
Q: How to resize disk image in gnome-Boxes when disk is up?
Try to use xrandr inside the vm to set a new resolution.
that did remind me to install "MC"..... at the moment I'll keep going with Virtualbox (fore now).
I wanted to try it out I am not using Ubuntu and was afraid openSUSE wouldn't install right so I got the flatpak from flathub and it works great just a one click install if you have flatpak wiht flathub repository enabled.
Seems to have all the features I need. Maybe I’ll switch from virtualbox
When you delete a VM in Boxes, does the host machine automatically get the space back that the VM was taking up?
If not, how does one go about doing so, please? (could you do a short vid on that, if necessary).
Btw, appreciate your content & the way you put it across.
The VM is removed completely freeing the space.
the image is stored in ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images.
VirtualBox looks ugly in Cinnamon.
Update: Just installed Gnome Boxes, looks BEAUTIFUL in Linux Mint 19.2 and it looks like Rhythmbox 3.4.2 as for its integration in the DE.
It does not work on my Hardware, lol.
I have to fallback to VirtualBox now, it's ugly (Qt in a GTK+ environment) but it just works well enough.
@phillip martin The Runtime is noticeably slower in Boxes on my Hardware (Intel Celeron J3060 Dualcore) it runs everything fine from Boot to Suspend (in which I always throw it in) but Boxes seems to freeze up randomly.
do i still need to install the dependencies in 2021 March? idk if those are already in the newest version of Boxes. Thanks in Advance!
Not sure... It won't hurt to install them anyway, though. If you can't find something in a later version than you don't need it. :)
Installed ok in Linux Mint 19.2, however it would not download or install any of the distro's. The error message it gave did not say anything of value. Too bad I like the look of it.
Same here. It is very frustrating. Guy Clark, here in the comments, said that it's a bug with Boxes on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which can cause virtual machines to fail to start, and Linux Mint 19.2 (which I'm also using) is based on Ubuntu 18.4 LTS. It may work with Linux Mint 20 next year. Hopefully.
It's working for me in Linux Mint 19.3.
I installed this on linux mint 18.3 and there is no option to download files from the host computer.
there is install spice guest software in windows
When you say, “Greetings and salutations” at the beginning of each video, are you referencing the movie Heathers? I just saw it for the first time last night. Actually, as I type this, I remember you saying in an earlier video that you were paying homage to another DJ who had been your mentor, or a DJ you had worked with before. At any rate, I’m sure you already know this, but Christian Slater says greetings and salutations in Heathers.
My saying that predates the movie by several years... :)
@@EzeeLinux Hehe, you could claim they got it from you!
Just came to Ubuntu from LM and my background is dying every time I suspend, mby someone knows ho to solve this, I've tried everything I could find?
It's a known bug. They're working on it. :)
@@EzeeLinux As far as I could find they havent fixed it in a couple of years, so I thought maybe someone has found a solution
Saw Android listed on there, does GNOME Boxes make use of qemu-arm or is that the x86 Android build?
No clue.
I'll have to check it out when I get home. Being compatible with multiple qemu applications would be the bee's knees!
Got it installed but I get a "Failed to Start" message when I try to run a VM.
Is it because I am running Mint/Cinnamon, not Gnome?
There is a bug with Boxes on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which can cause virtual machines to fail to start. On Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Boxes is very much more stable.
@@guyclark2975 In that case I might stick with VirtualBox for now, at least until next year when Mint 20 is released.
@@guyclark2975 I have the same problem and nothing I've tried to fix it has worked. Thank you for the info. I guess I will try again next year with Linux Mint 20.
Have you tried it again with Linux Mint 19.3? I upgraded to 19.3 and Gnome Boxes is working now.
Works for me
Does it support MacOS?
What's your take on Bedrock Linux as an alternative to Snap and Flatpak? With Bedrock Linux script installed on Ubuntu or Mint, you can for example install software packages from Arch repos or AUR using pacman and yay commands on Mint or Ubuntu terminal. Bedrock Linux basically gives access to repositories of other Linux distros Debian, Arch, Fedora, etc. which you normally wont have.
This blog post talks about autoscaling in Gnome Boxes: mike42.me/blog/2019-08-how-to-auto-scale-the-display-in-gnome-boxes ( also virt-manager if you ever need more advanced controls of your VM's btw )
looks like the missing thing you need is spice-vdagent
It's installed... There seems to be more to it than they talk about here.
Doesn't this lock one in to Gnome? Whereas with VirtualBox there is no lock in.
It runs on any desktop environment.
What a GTK nice theme you use?
i see a few android in here
it has too virgl video acceleration
that will be interesting for gaming.
I am using Debian 10 (Buster) with KDE, and I get the following message
"Failed to start Fedora blablabla"
What am I doing wrong here? I followed all your instructions to no avail!
Thank you for the video , all the same!
UPDATE: I rebooted the system and everything went just fine!
Thank you again for the share and for the strait-to-the-point-comments!
I really don't know what's up. Is virtualization enabled in the BIOS for that machine?
@@EzeeLinux
Thank you for your reply, but I stated in my earlier comment that I rebooted my system and everything worked just fine!
Thank you again for the share!
I would really appreciate you brother, if you could help me about this real problem. I am a new in bug bounty hunting zone n for this I need to use both Linux n Windows 10 because some Windows based softwares don't work at all in Linux like Acunetix Net Sparker etc...because they need Dot Net Repositories Windows DLLs Registry registration etc...all typical Dot Net platform REQUIREMENTS...Inshort I wanna use Linux n Windows on same single pc on same single screen... I tried Oracle Vmware Gnome Boxes but all SUCKS as they Consume too much RAM CPU resources....
Yes in MacOs we have parallel OS software to run linux Windows simultaneously on MacOs on the same pc on same screen with minimum RAM CPU resources....Hope I made my question very clear to get REAL Solution...
Love n Respect for you brothers
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I tried boxes some time ago but could never get anything to install. Back then I was using Xubuntu and different hardware. Your video has motivated me to give it another try but I am experiencing the same problems as I did a couple of years or so ago, only now I am using Ubuntu Mate 18.04. There were no error messages during the install of Gnome-boxes following your method in the video. Every ISO I have tried to install (all known good ISOs that work fine in VirtualBox) have the same error, "Failed to start ". Have I missed something? I am currently downloading an OS via the boxes interface to see if that works. Any one else had this problem?
Make video on TLP
Don't ask who Joe is.