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Questions tagged [gnome-boxes]

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Why DNS stops resolving under QEMU "user networking" when the host roams to a particular network?

I use GNOME Boxes on a laptop. The guest machines get the Internet connection automatically with default settings whenever the laptop moves between networks (Ethernet, Wi-Fi in different locations, or a cellular phone as a USB modem). The guest…
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GNOME Boxes Boot From ISO After Installing An Operating System?

Trying to set up a couple of Arch Linux virtual machines for troubleshooting programs. One is having network issues so I'm trying to chroot into it and install Network Manager or Connman to fix it. However, after I've successfully installed any…
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What is the actual default networking type in gnome-boxes using qemu:///session?

According to the author of this post: gnome-boxes originally used usermode networking, but switched around Fedora 21 timeframe to use virbr0 via qemu-bridge-helper. But that's dependent on virbr0 being set up correctly by the host admin, or via…
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GNOME Boxes: VM gets paused when going back to home screen

I'm using gnome-boxes to run an Ubuntu VM (Arch Linux host). From the home screen of GB (where all the VMs are shown) I click on the VM's thumbnail and it opens and takes all GB window. Everything works fine, I can put GB on another virtual desktop…
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How to make a USB device available to a QEMU guest?

I am trying to make my laptop camera accessible by a guest system on it. With the guest system not running, I open it in virt-manager, go to "Show virtual hardware details" → "Add Hardware" → "USB Host Device". Here I choose my camera (001:002…
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Guix System Problem with GNOME Boxes

To build a virtual machine with GNOME Boxes, I have this problem: "virtualization extensions are unavailable on your system. Check your bios settings to enable them." what's the solution?
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How can I get sound from a Boxes VM?

I am running an Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS VM on a PureOS 8.0 host, running GNOME Boxes 3.30.3 and a QEMU session broker. The VM has spice-vdagent 0.17.0 installed. I cannot get audio in the VM to play. I have the volume up on the VM and host. The VM sound…
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How to delete Gnome Boxes machine from bash

Yesterday I duplicated my Windows 10 machine in Gnome boxes to upgrade to Win 11. After realising that it would need 64 GB of space on my harddrive, which I do not have currently, I deleted the image. Now Gnome boxes crashes with the following…
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How can I tell if Gnome-Boxes is using KVM?

I'm using gnome-boxes to run lubuntu inside a virtual machine. I am wondering how I can verify whether or not it is using KVM? I am using a CPU that supports virtualization (Intel Core i5 3330) and kvm is enabled in the kernel. However, I don't see…
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Allow VM in gnome boxes to access webserver on host

I have a webserver running on my host OS and I want to access it from a windows VM running in gnome boxes. The VM has internet access but it does not seem to be able to access anything on the local network by local IP address. There seems to be no…
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Privacy when Running Windows Software Under GNOME

I've been running Pop!_OS 18.04 on a System76 Meerkat. I've been advised that I can run Quickbooks for Windows if I first install gnome-boxes. If I do so, will I have as much privacy as before? Or will Windows or Quickbooks somehow gather data about…
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GNOME Boxes: proper network configuration?

I've got a problem with GNOME Boxes: I've 2 machines, cloned 1 from other, with CentOS. Both machines get same IP address on GNOME Boxes, so when I boot the 2nd, the 1st gets disconnected from network, and vice versa. This is not acceptable…
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GNOME Boxes not able to see virtual machines after sleep

I am having a bit of trouble to solve this issue. I am using gnome-boxes to run my Windows virtual machines for my school project purpose. When I boot the system, everything works just fine. When I type: virsh list --all the output I have at this…
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How to fix (several) VM start-up issues in gnome-boxes?

in short: My virtual machine named CONAN01 is not starting up in gnome-boxes, I receive/see different errors and do not know what the real issues behind them are: Error 1: When starting gnome-boxes from the Gnome desktop environment and clicking on…
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How to remotely connect to another Gnome Boxes VM?

I'm not too familiar with SSH things, and I'm trying to do a remote connection to a virtual machine on my other PC which has Gnome Boxes installed on it. Might be a simple question, but are there any commands to run to see my SSH status, and how can…
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