Does GNOME Boxes is stable on trisquel?

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alainproton
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I saw that gnome-boxes is one of the package in trisquel.
So I assume it should run fine in trisquel?

I am looking for a free/libre virtualization manager to install on trisquel or PureOS.
So I can run multiple trisquel vm on it.

Thanks
I tried virtual box, but multiple vm dont really run well together for me.
I am temporary using QubesOS as a virtualization (trisquel works fine on it), but it is not free/libre, it has Debian binary blobs.

Avron

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I use virt-manager usually.

alainproton
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yes, virt-manager is way better and the cloning of vm WORKS!
Thanks

Legimet
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> I tried virtual box

VirtualBox itself is free, but its BIOS is compiled using the Open Watcom compiler (the same compiler used to build FreeDOS, I believe), which is under a nonfree (albeit open source) license. That's why VirtualBox isn't included in free distros. There is a guy at the company which owns the copyright to Open Watcom who is working to get it relicensed under a free and likely GPL-compatible license (seems like they want to go with Apache). Not sure when that will happen though. Corporate bureaucracy moves slowly.