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gnome boxes nightly gnome boxes nightly gnome boxes has been rewritten to address historical architectural issues adapt to a flatpak first world and use gtk4 libadwaita with a new display widget libmks this work is in beta state and may result in virtual machine data loss use at your own risk the boxes rewrite is planned to be released alongside gnome 51 in september 2026 you can install it already from the gnome nightly apps flatpak repository you can learn more about the rewrite by watching the following presentations guadec 2026 the future of boxes linux app summit 2025 how i am rewriting gnome boxes to bring it to the gtk4 libadwaita era guadec 2025 gnome boxes the art of delayed gratification installation command once the nightly flatpak repository has been set up you can install boxes with flatpak install gnome nightly org gnome boxes devel available features create virtual machines from installation sources iso img create virtual machines from existing virtual machine disks qcow2 create windows 11 virtual machines use uefi or bios firmware share the clipboard between your system and your box using spice vdagent in the guest send files into your virtual machine using spice vdagent in the guest send ctrl alt fn keys to your box take screenshots of your virtual machine tweak memory and main disk space for a virtual machine set up port forwarding to access services inside the box ssh and http for now use a vsock ssh proxy to establish a secure shell connection with the virtual machine select the bootable virtual device cdrom file or virtual disk use snapshots to save the state of the box introspect the qemu logs of your box manually change the libvirt domain xml of your box access the virsh virtualization console to perform advanced libvirt procedures reporting issues report issues in our gitlab repository including your box s logs found under properties logs boxes is developed in volunteer time so expect delays in issue responses 2026 gnome foundation