--- title: GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved... description: GNOME Boxes, the GNOME desktop virtualization front-end for libvirt and QEMU, is undergoing a major rewrite led by Felipe Borges. Key changes include migration... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gnome-boxes-preparing-to-deliver-much-improved-virtualization-experience-7rbej3fxd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience | daily.dev og:description: GNOME Boxes, the GNOME desktop virtualization front-end for libvirt and QEMU, is undergoing a major rewrite led by Felipe Borges. Key changes include migration... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gnome-boxes-preparing-to-deliver-much-improved-virtualization-experience-7rbej3fxd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7rBEj3Fxd.png og:image:alt: GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GNOME Boxes, the GNOME desktop virtualization front-end for libvirt and QEMU, is undergoing a major rewrite led by Felipe Borges. Key changes include migration to GTK4 and libadwaita, native support for installing Windows 11 without manual Secure Boot or TPM workarounds, introduction of a VSOCK device for VM context access, and a shift to a Flatpak-only distribution model. A beta release is now available on Flathub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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