news 28 Posted March 19, 2012 We are pleased to announce a new release of Boxes. Changes since 3.3.5.1: - Box creation wizard: - Present bootable medias and user's ISO files on 'Source' page. For fetching/tracking user's ISOs, we make use of Tracker. - Teach the Wizard to accept 'qemu..://' sources. - Move to 'Preparation' once file/media is selected. - Display notification against errors during 'prepare' and 'create' steps. In case of 'prepare', we go back to previous step since user is very likely to be able to fix the issue. - Add mnemonic accelerator to 'Continue' button. - More reliable tracking of installations. Previously, Boxes used to forget ongoing installations once user quit the application and that would lead to installations looping forever. - Don't take post-installation steps for saved domains. Saved domains are stopped as well so them being stopped doesn't mean that first boot is done and its time to perform post install setup. - Launch new domain in fullscreen, unless express installations is going to be performed on it. - Make user deletion work for saved VMs. - Leave fullscreen when going back to collection view. - Fix the white triangle stats graph. - Ability to disable source by manually editing source file. Useful for debugging. - Added/updated translations: - Polish - Italian - Some other functional and non-functional improvements and fixes. Dependencies changed: - libvirt-glib >= 0.0.5 - tracker-sparql-0.14 >=0.13.1 (NEW) All bugs fixed in this release: 666373 - wizard: Present bootable ISO files 668211 - Unreliable post-install/live session setup 668792 - Handle errors better 669513 - Teach the Wizard to accept qemu..:// sources 669771 - Present bootable medias on 'Source' page 670174 - Don't take post-installation steps for saved domains 670239 - installer: Launch new domains in fullscreen 670256 - wizard: Add mnemonic accelerator to 'Continue' button 670359 - Fix the white triangle stats graph 670360 - Add enabled source field 670361 - Leave fullscreen when in collection view state 670362 - Delete libvirt machine even if its saved All contributors to this release: Luca Ferretti Marc-André Lureau Piotr Drąg Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) ------------------------- What is Boxes? ============ A simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems. Goals ==== * View, access, and use: * remote machines * remote virtual machines * local virtual machines * When technology permits, set up access for applications on local virtual machines * View, access, and use virtual machines on removable media * View, access, and use shared connection / machines * Share connections? * Upload / publish virtual machines * Select favorites * Search for connections Non-Goals ======== * Enterprise system management / administration * Asset management * Software distribution * Automation 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. Homage page ========== https://live.gnome.org/Boxes Downloads ======== http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-boxes -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
