A Look at GNOME Boxes Virtualization Software

Published: 14 October 2019
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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/\ =\ "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:

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