Re: Various Questions About Boxes

[Lasse Schuirmann <lasse schuirmann gmail com>]

Forget CCing the list every time...

2014-09-18 18:03 GMT+02:00 Lasse Schuirmann <lasse schuirmann gmail com>:
> Am 17.09.2014 18:57 schrieb "Gerald Nunn" <gerald b nunn gmail com>:
> > I've switched to gnome-boxes from virtualbox in order to learn more about
> > qemu/kvm and have some specific questions about Boxes as follows. Note I'm
> > using boxes on Arch with gnome 3.12
>
> Great. Then youll geht 3.14 soon.
>
> > a. When I imported my Windows VM from VirtualBox, it saved the image as
> > "boxes-unknown", is there a way to change the name to something more
> > obvious?
>
> In the properties you should be able to just click on the name and then
> change it. In 3.14 you will be able to click the top bar and do it there if
> zeenix didn't change it again.
>
> > b. Not strictly a boxes question but is there any way to get qemu to not
> > capture specific keys? I'd like the keys to change gnome workspaces to
> > always go to the host to make it easy to switch between guest and host. If
> > no, how do most people handle easily switching between host and guest?
>
> This is still a matter of discussion.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730826
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733988
>
> There are quite some bugs open around this matter. In general we appreciate
> any input on how we can improve! If you feel a certain behaviour would be
> handy thats where you can change and shape things.
>
> > c. Is there a way to launch a specific VM directly using Boxes, for
> > example if I want to create a launcher to directly start my Windows VM. I
> > know I could run it through qemu directly but would prefer to stay in the
> > boxes interface.
>
> You can do:
>
> gnome-boxes path/to/iso.iso
>
> However you can't do:
>
> gnome-boxes vm_name
>
> which would be handy. I opened
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736917
>
> for you.
>
> > d. Is there a way to get boxes to launch VMs in a window instead of
> > full-screen? If I can't figure out how to resolve point B this might have to
> > be my fullback or switch back to VirtualBox.
>
> If I get correctly what you mean this should be better in 3.14: we made
> fullscreening an explicit operation, therefore you only go to fullscreen if
> you explicitly click this tiny fullscreen button. In addition you'll get the
> possibility to launch several VMs in several windows at the same time thanks
> to Adrien Plazas.
>
> > And lastly I'm really enjoying Boxes so far, great work by the team and
> > look forward to seeing what improvements come in 3.14.
>
> Thats great to hear! Thank you very much for your feedback and questions
>
> Lasse Schuirmann