[HN Gopher] Let's Try Gnome Boxes ___________________________________________________________________ Let's Try Gnome Boxes Author : ctsdownloads Score : 8 points Date : 2022-08-20 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (glovesoff.substack.com) (TXT) w3m dump (glovesoff.substack.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-20 23:00 UTC)