Welcome to the inaugural edition of Boxes of Boxes, a bi-monthly virtualization, containerization, and turduckenization column. Given the title and subject matter of this column, and the fact that version 3.14 of GNOME desktop environment has recently shipped, I decided to take a look at the project’s built-in application for running virtual machines: GNOME Boxes. I took GNOME Boxes for a spin on Fedora 21 alpha, which also shipped recently, sporting GNOME 3.14 as its default desktop environment.
The GNOME 3.14 release notes point to support for Debian as a newly added “express installation” target for GNOME Boxes, so I started off by pointing the app at a Debian Wheezy installation ISO I’d downloaded. The express installation feature suggests a set of sane defaults for virtual disk size and for VM memory, asks for a password, and promptly chefs up a fresh VM instance, and the feature worked as expected with the installation I’d kicked off.
via GNOME Boxes 3.14, Unboxed — Red Hat Open Source Community.
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