Felipe Borges announces a major rebuild of GNOME Boxes, shifting to a Flatpak-first model and migrating to GTK4/Libadwaita for better maintainability and modern UI. The beta release is now available for testing via the GNOME Nightly Flatpak repository, with support for creating VMs from ISOs and disk images, clipboard sharing, and file transfer.
Background
GNOME Boxes is a simple virtual machine manager for GNOME that allows users to run guest operating systems. It has historically been distributed across multiple package formats, making maintenance challenging for its solo developer.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Aug 4, 2026 at 01:16 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10