It’s a lot simpler and easier to use. This tool allows any inexperienced and general Linux users to enjoy the full advantage of virtualization technology.

It’s also a great alternative to the VirtualBox. Are you interested in other VirtualBox alternatives? Check them out!

Why use GNOME Boxes

There are a number of reasons you should consider adding GNOME Boxes into your arsenal.

First of all, it’s a virtualization software that allows you running other systems on the same hardware. You won’t have to install the OS natively in your system. That’s also the sole purpose of VirtualBox. However, because of the simplicity, you don’t have to go through all the detailed system specification for the virtual OS.

In addition, you can also use it for managing remote systems over the network. That’s a powerful thing if you’re working on a corporate environment.

Installing GNOME Boxes

Run the following command(s) according to your Linux distro –

• Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnome-boxes

• Debian

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-boxes

• OpenSUSE

Get GNOME Boxes.

• Fedora

sudo yum install gnome-boxes

• Arch Linux

Get GNOME Boxes.

Using GNOME Boxes

Before proceeding further, you may need to make the following tweaks to your system so that GNOME Boxes run perfectly, without any problem.

At first, install the following packages –

• qemu-utils
• libvirt-bin

Then, run the following commands in a terminal –

sudo nano /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

# Add the following lines in the file, save and close
group=kvm

sudo usermod -a -G kvm $USER

After the installation is complete, start GNOME Boxes –

From the top-left corner, click “New” button for adding a new virtual system.

You can also add a virtual system from an image file.

If you want, you can customize the settings for the virtual system as Boxes will allocate space to a minimum level (enough for running the OS).

Enjoy!

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However, there’re more software than VirtualBox for getting the job done. Here are some of the best alternatives for VirtualBox that you can enjoy right now!

• VMware Workstation Player

If you’re looking for something as powerful as VirtualBox, then VMware is one of the best choices you can make. VMware Workstation Player provides everything you need to run a virtual operating system right from your desktop.

With enough hardware resource, you can run almost ALL the operating systems in the world! There are 2 different versions of the Workstation Player – Workstation Player and Workstation Player Pro. “Pro” is the paid version that offers some advanced features like running multiple VMs at once, taking VM snapshot, create and manage encrypt VMs etc. However, the normal one fulfills all the basic features that general users will need to check out new systems.

Get VMware Workstation Player.

• GNOME Boxes

GNOME is a big software family that contains almost all the essential software, including this cool virtualization tool! Yes, GNOME Boxes is a great virtualization software that you can enjoy for free.

If you prefer something really simplistic like VirtualBox, then GNOME Boxes is your right choice. In fact, it’s even easier than the legendary VirtualBox! Keeping simplicity in mind, GNOME Boxes arranged everything in a way that you won’t have any confusion on what you’re doing. Featuring all the necessary virtualization features and hardware support, this software will become one of your favorites pretty easily.

Check out GNOME Boxes!

• QEMU

Another really popular choice for virtualization. It’s a very simple yet powerful one, just like VirtualBox. It’s also completely free and open-source.

QEMU is able to virtualize any system on any hardware provided that the platform is supported by the program. The tool allows very fast performance on the guest OS, nearly the performance of the native OS. Get QEMU.

• Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is basically a command line tool for performing virtualization on a system.  Don’t worry as it also provides an elegant, simple and powerful GUI to perform all the tasks for a general user. The primary targets of virt-manager are the KVM VMs. However, it’s able to handle Xen and LXC pretty easily. Get virt-manager.

Hope you liked the tools. There are also other software to perform the jobs. Feel free to share your thoughts.

Enjoy!

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