Re: Location of VM storage

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On sön, 2013-04-07 at 17:54 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 04:51:25PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com> wrote:
> > > Is it possible to change where Boxes stores VMs?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > >  My home directories
> > > are NFS-mounted; and I'd generally prefer for VMs to be on local
> > > storage.
> >
> > We could put the path to gsettings where it could be changed at
> > runtime. Although this sounds like a very geeky and specific usecase
> > so I won't have any motivation to do it but I'll be open to patches
> > from anyone else for this.
>
> 'virsh -c qemu:///session pool-edit gnome-boxes' should allow you to
> specify another path for Boxes libvirt storage pool.

Also, you can symlink ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images to some other
place.