Re: box "lost" after removing installation image?

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

Hi Kristian,

So sorry for the very late reply.

> I installed Boxes mainly in need to run Windows 8 on my Linux laptop
> without rebooting. Generally, Boxes does that _pretty_ good, far better
> than I expected and actually it seems even a bit better than
> VirtualBox, however I saw one thing that did surprise me:
>
> I created a new box for the Windows 8 installation ISO on my device.
> Installation went well, box worked well afterwards. However, at some
> point I deleted the installation ISO (as my SSD was growing full), just
> to see the Windows 8 box obviously was gone too.
>
> This seems to happen all the time: Whenever I install a box off an iso,
> the box is obviously removed or at least not reachable with Boxes UI
> anymore as soon as the iso image is deleted.
>
> Is this an intended behaviour? Any way to work around and/or change
> this? It surely does feel a bit strange...

It's not intended, no. This is expected on live VMs (running off ISO)
so my fist guess would be that Boxes has a regression of treating
non-live as live case.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali