Boxes 3.4.2

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We are pleased to announce a new release of Boxes.

 

Changes since 3.4.1:

 

- Performance-related fixes and improvements:

- Asynchronously fetch VM information from libvirt to not block the UI.

- Cache VM information to reduce potentially costly periodic calls to libvirt.

- Unset cache on disk driver for main storage.

- Use virtio disk for OSs that support it out of the box.

- Fix product logo fetching that broke against libosinfo 0.1.1.

- Dragging window in Microsoft Windows 7 shouldn't bring topbar.

- Make wizard file chooser dialog, modal.

- Fix mouse scrollwheel not working.

- Express installation:

- Mark CD-ROM and floppy devices/images as optional after installation.

- Fix Fedora 17 express installation.

- Translate X keyboard layout ID to console layout ID as Anaconda expects the

latter in the kickstart file.

- Added/updated/fixed translations:

- Catalan

- Czech

- Belarusian

- Brazilian Portuguese

- Bulgarian

- French

- Galician

- German

- Italian

- Lithuanian

- Polish

- Serbian

 

Dependencies changed:

 

- libvirt-glib >= 0.0.8

- libvirt-gconfig >= 0.0.8

 

All bugs fixed in this release:

 

670777 - Better disk performance

673856 - Missing ISO source should not be treated as a fatal error

674228 - Name logo files according to distro names

674328 - Cannot differentiate similar ISOs in list of ISOs

674352 - Getting statistics slow down VMs a lot

674361 - Top toolbar in display shouldn't prevent win7 drag window top to

maximize

674647 - Make wizard file chooser dialog, modal

675615 - Mouse scrollwheel not working in local Windows XP guest

675617 - Mark the express install floppy image as optional

675663 - Don't do blocking calls on main threads when collecting stats

675813 - Translate X kbd layout ID to console layout ID

 

All contributors to this release:

 

Alexander Larsson

Alexander Shopov

Aurimas Černius

Bruno Brouard

Christian Kirbach

Fran Diéguez

Gil Forcada

Ihar Hrachyshka

Jonh Wendell

Luca Ferretti

Marc-André Lureau

Marek Černocký

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/3.4/

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