Enlarge / We're not sure we love Boxes' offer to act as a RDP/VNC/Spice/SSH all-in-one client for remote systems that have nothing to do with your VMs. Convenient—or confusing? (credit: Jim Salter)
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Yes, you can just install Gnome Boxes from Software Center—but I'm a sysadmin at heart; I used apt instead. [credit: Jim Salter ]
In the comments of our recent GhostBSD review, reader Enduzzer casually mentioned trying out the distribution in a Gnome Boxes VM. Linux's Kernel Virtual Machine has been a mainstay of my own system administration for more than a decade—but I use virt-manager, an excellent and deeply sysadmin-ish graphical management interface.
I generally describe virt-manager as "simple"—and in many ways it's much simpler than Boxes is—but there are different ways to interpret simplicity.
The integrated approach
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We had good results with an Ubuntu Focal Fossa guest, running on our Ubuntu Focal Fossa host system. [credit: Jim Salter ]
Under the hood, Boxes shares the majority of its technical underpinnings with virt-manager: the libvirt virtualization API, the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, and the qemu generic processor emulator. Virt-manager exposes those inner workings as much as possible while trying not to get them unnecessarily in the way.
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