GNOME Boxes Easily access remote or virtual systems on GNOME 3
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GNOME Boxes is a simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems. It is based on a design from Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner.Use cases- Connect to a local virtual machine for testing.- Connecting to a work machine from home.- Connect to a work machine over a low quality cellular network. RationaleWhile virt-manager does a very good job as a virtual machine management software, its very much tailored for system administration and virtual machines. Boxes on the other hand is targeted towards typical desktop end-user who either just want a very safe and easy way to try out new operating systems or new (potentially unstable) versions of her/his favorite operating system(s), or need to connect to a remote machine (home-office connection being a typical use-case). For this reason, Boxes will not provide many of the advanced options to tweak virtual machines provided by virt-manager. Instead Boxes will focus on getting things working out of the box with very little input from user.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.Requirements:- Build-time: libvirt-glib qemu libosinfo gudev vala (not if building from release tarballs) gtk+ clutter-gtk - Run-time: shared-mime-infoProduct's homepage

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