On 04/14/2016 07:54 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > Hi, > Boxes is the pre-installed solution for VMs on Workstation, but it > doesn't get as much attention as it should. > Currently development composes of F24 don't even work in Boxes on F23, > so users who'd like to test F24 in the default VM app are out of luck. > It clearly violates one of the release criteria:https://fedoraproject.o > rg/wiki/Fedora_24_Beta_Release_Criteria#Guest_on_current_stable_release > More test coverage is good, but the larger problem may be that gnome-boxes lacks some fedora dev love; The bug tracker is filled with dupes, the last f22 build was in july, last f23 build was in october > The problem is that even though Boxes is the default VM app in > Workstation it's not among recommended Fedora virtualization tools the > criteria is referring to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_starte > d_with_virtualization > Fedora QA also use solely virt-manager and they only test Boxes from > time to time to make sure the basic functionality works. > The more complete picture AFAIK is that virt-manager is part of the workflow for some fedora QA people, while gnome boxes is something that they (maybe) test. virt-manager/virt-install have at least one feature that boxes lacks that I know QA use often, and that's installing directly from a URL tree by pulling down kernel/initrd. Saves having to fetch an iso for quick tests > Boxes have been here for some time, it's our default solution, we > should make sure it's the best working desktop VM on Fedora and work > with Fedora QA on ways to improve the test coverage. I think we should > start with adding Boxes to recommended virt tools. Does anyone have an > idea if it needs to go through some committee or is it just "go ahead > and edit" wiki page? No oversight needed, edit the page as you see fit. The virt wiki docs are in a pretty sorry state, I've been meaning to clean them up for a long time - Cole -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
