Fedora 19 Boxes

Roger arelem at bigpond.com
Tue Jul 16 23:51:00 UTC 2013


On 07/16/2013 05:29 PM, poma wrote:
> On 16.07.2013 08:29, Roger wrote:
>> Noticed in F18 and now Fedora 19 a tool called Boxes. Is this a
>> Virtualisation tool? Is it like VMware, etc. Does it work Ok? Does
>> anyone use it? What results were seen? Is it Good or Bad or indifferent?
>> Google doesn't help at all.
>>
>> Can someone please enlighten me.
>> TIA
>> Roger
> You have to strengthen your Google-Fu.
> "gnome-boxes"[1] is something like a lighter version of the "Virtual
> Machine Manager" i.e. "virt-manager"[2].
> Both are graphical tools on top of "libvirt"[3] as the backend, which is
> the standard method of virtualization on platforms such as Fedora and RHEL.
>
>
> poma
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Boxes
> [2] http://virt-manager.org/
> [3] http://libvirt.org/
>
Thank you poma this helps.
My google-Fu wanes frequently.
Roger


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