Ubuntu – GNOME-Boxes vs VirtualBox

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Which would be "faster" more "responsive" virtual machine software? GNOME-Boxes or VirtualBox?

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GNOME Boxes is a graphical user interface similar to virt-manager aimed to access virtual machines based on Qemu or for viewing remote desktops:

That said, Boxes will be sharing a lot of code-base with virt-manager project, mainly in the form of libvirt, libosinfo (not yet used by virt-manager) and qemu.^GNOME

Therefore it is not expected that there will be any performance improvements in comparison with existing virtualization software listed here. It may however be easier to access you virtual machines from GNOME. There is also a question on this topic here.

From my experience Virtual Box is so easy to handle that it does not really need any user interface other than the one provided. It also has the advantage of a being a cross- platform application.

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Ubuntu – How tonstall the new Gnome Boxes

Gnome-boxes cannot be installed on 12.04.

GNOME boxes has not been packaged due to dependency problems. If you want to try out the boxes, try compiling from the source.

For 12.10 and newer it can be installed by simply typing:

sudo apt-get install gnome-boxes

If you are looking to use a newer version, you can consider installing it from the source tarballs.

Do take note that GNOME boxes is still very much in development.

Ubuntu – How to access the internet from a virtual machine in Gnome Boxes

Thanks to a user in the german Arch-Linux board I got an answer: Boxes uses NAT for the host, and some protocols (like ICMP) aren't working. So I couldn't use ping, tracepath and the like, but the network and an installation works nevertheless.

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