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System & Settings

Boxes

Virtualization made simple

The GNOME Project

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Description

Select an operating system and let Boxes download and install it for you

in a virtual machine.

Features:

• Download freely available operating systems

• Automatically install CentOS Stream, Debian, Fedora, Microsoft Windows, OpenSUSE, Red

Hat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu

• Create virtual machines from operating system images with a couple of clicks

• Limit the resources (memory and storage) your virtual machines consume from your system

• Take snapshots of virtual machines to restore to previous states

• Redirect USB devices from your physical machine into virtual machines

• 3D acceleration for some of the supported operating systems

• Automatically resize virtual machines displays to the window size

• Share clipboard between your system and virtual machines

• Share files to virtual machines by dropping them from your file manager into the Boxes window

• Setup Shared Folders between your system and virtual machines

Version

v50.0Mar 16, 2026