Boxes 3.3.91

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We are pleased to announce a new release of Boxes.

 

Changes since 3.3.90:

 

- Box creation wizard:

- Correct architecture comparison so that all medias don't get presented as

64-bit.

- Present OS logos. Due to legal reasons, we are currently limited to Debian,

Fedora, Ubuntu and openSUSE.

- More reliable way to retrieve user's avatar.

- Fedora express install: Correct commandline to add user to 'wheel' group.

- Instead of presenting a boring empty space on first launch, start the wizard.

- Allow changing of RAM allocation and storage capacity.

- Disable screenshots when machine is deleted.

- Added/updated translations:

- Belarusian

- Esperanto

- French

- Galician

- German

- Lithuanian

- Polish

- Serbian

- Slovenian

- Spanish

- Swedish

- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan)

- UK

- Uyghur

- Some other functional and non-functional improvements and fixes.

 

Dependencies changed:

 

- libvirt-glib >= 0.0.6*

 

All bugs fixed in this release:

 

664774 - allow adjustment of vm settings

670003 - wizard: Present OS logos

670539 - Misc fixes

670573 - wizard: Correct architecture comparison

670994 - Make use of Libvirt.Domain.get_devices()

671253 - Include details about the "explicit permission from trademark owners"

671304 - broker: need translation comment

 

All contributors to this release:

 

Cheng-Chia Tseng

Daniel Korostil

Daniel Mustieles

Daniel Nylander

Fran Diéguez

Gheyret Kenji

Ihar Hrachyshka

Kristjan SCHMIDT

Manu Gupta

Marc-André Lureau

Mario Blättermann

Martin Srebotnjak

Matej UrbanÄÂiÄÂ

Piotr Drąg

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

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What is Boxes?

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A simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems.

 

Goals

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* 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

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* Enterprise system management / administration

* Asset management

* Software distribution

* Automation

 

Use Cases

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* 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

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https://live.gnome.org/Boxes

 

Downloads

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http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-boxes

 

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Regards,

 

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

FSF member#5124

 

* libvirt-glib 0.0.6 tarball is not yet available in the canonical

location but temporarily available from here:

 

http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/libvirt-glib-0.0.6.tar.gz

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