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GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience (www.phoronix.com)
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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.

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[–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

i REALLY needed this when my everything server was running since i managed it headlessly using vnc w a minimal installation of gnome.

virt-manager works okay, but it would be nicer not to have to install more than what's needed for a headless setup.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    If you give it a shot make sure you use an ssh key, it doesn't like passwords.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks 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.

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