14 DAY TRIAL // Yet another development version of the upcoming GNOME Boxes 3.8, a sophisticated application to easily and quickly access remote or virtual systems on the controversial and popular GNOME 3 desktop environment, saw the light of day a few days ago.
GNOME Boxes 3.8 Beta 1 is here to add various attractive features and fix some annoying issues that have been introduced since the previous development version, but first we should mention that some dependencies have changed: spice-client-gtk-3.0 >= 0.15 and govirt-1.0 >= 0.0.3 (without it, oVirt support is disabled).
Highlights of GNOME Boxes 3.8 Beta 1:
• Added support for oVirt; • Added support for post-installation drivers, which means that, if combined with the libosinfo 0.2.4 library, all virio drivers and QXL will be automatically installed; • Recommended storage and RAM are automatically marked in VM properties; • Bumped minimum required and step value for RAM from 1MB to 64MB in VM properties; • Downgraded the step value for storage from 1GB to 256MB in VM properties; • IEC units are no longer used in properties and wizard; • Fixed an infinite loop crash; • Fixed a crash related to passing media on command-line; • Improved media detection; • Improved restart of installations; • Media detection code can now adapt to the latest versions of the libosinfo and udev packages; • The thumbnail position in properties view has been fixed; • Better support for the new GNOME-Shell search interface; • The installation progress of drivers will now always reach 100%, even if errors occurred during installation; • Ability to search using multiple terms.
Moreover, the following translations have been added, updated or fixed in GNOME Boxes 3.8 Beta 1: Galician, Greek, Malayalam, Polish, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Uyghur. Download GNOME Boxes 3.8 Beta 1 (3.7.90) right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.