[HN Gopher] Let's Try Gnome Boxes
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Let's Try Gnome Boxes
Author : ctsdownloads
Score : 8 points
Date : 2022-08-20 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| resoluteteeth wrote:
| Boxes has a fantastically simple ui but, as was the experience of
| the author of this article, it is really easy to run into
| something you can't configure with it so you have to switch to
| virt-manager.
| seltzered_ wrote:
| FWIW, I got leary of Gnome Boxes (probably because I usually
| need to run a commercial OS like Windows) and found myself
| pretty happy with quickemu/quickgui -
| https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui
| nulbyte wrote:
| It works for what I need, but yes, if you need to configure
| something it doesn't support, it's a hassle. If you reconfigure
| it in virt-manager, Boxes will happily run the new config,
| until you change something else in Boxes, and then it will
| obliterate your changes.
|
| The one problem I have, and I can't figure out if this is Boxes
| or something else: If the machine suspends, spinning it back up
| again results in a wrong clock. I can reset it, but it doesn't
| set itself automatically. I can't even find reasonable
| documentation on the issue.
| cowtools wrote:
| this has been my experience exactly.
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| I prefer to just use virt-manager. It is a more comparable
| alternative. Gnome Boxes is cool to showcase virtualization for
| people that might not have any experience, but it is very dumbed
| down. People are going to want to optimize their Windows
| virtualization and Gnome Boxes is not the best place to do it.
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