GNOME Boxes
Install latest/stable of GNOME Boxes
Ubuntu 16.04 or later?
Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.
Install using the command line
sudo snap install gnome-boxesDon't have snapd? Get set up for snaps.
Details for GNOME Boxes
Package name
- gnome-boxes
License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
Last updated
- 2 September 2026 - latest/stable
- 29 August 2026 - latest/candidate
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Virtualization made simple
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.
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Install GNOME Boxes on your Linux distribution
Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the installing snapd documentation.
