Re: Various Questions About Boxes

[Gerald Nunn <gerald b nunn gmail com>]

I can understand where you are coming from, however from time to time users may need to use virsh or virt-manager to accomplish more advanced tasks then what boxes allows, for example adding hardware to the VM in virt-manager. However by no means do I consider this a high priority, just a nice to have. If it's not currently possible that's fine and it's no big deal. Thanks very much for the reply, appreciate it.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Lasse Schuirmann
<lasse schuirmann gmail com> wrote:
> Forget CCing the list every time...
>
> 2014-09-18 18:03 GMT+02:00 Lasse Schuirmann <lasse schuirmann gmail com>:
>> Am 17.09.2014 18:57 schrieb "Gerald Nunn" <gerald b nunn gmail com>:
>>>
>>> I've switched to gnome-boxes from virtualbox in order to learn more about
>>> qemu/kvm and have some specific questions about Boxes as follows. Note I'm
>>> using boxes on Arch with gnome 3.12
>>
>> Great. Then youll geht 3.14 soon.
>>
>>> a. When I imported my Windows VM from VirtualBox, it saved the image as
>>> "boxes-unknown", is there a way to change the name to something more
>>> obvious?
>>
>> In the properties you should be able to just click on the name and then
>> change it. In 3.14 you will be able to click the top bar and do it there if
>> zeenix didn't change it again.

Thats the way to change the title of the box. Gerald was talking about
the name of the underlying disk image. The answer is no, Boxes doesn't
provide any means to do that and it really shouldn't as thats a detail
that you (as user) should not need be exposed to.

Currently the only valid use case (actually its work around) for
looking into that image is to be able to export the image as we
currently don't have means to export it for you in the UI. Still, you
shouldn't need to care about its name as you can name the destination
image anything you like when you copy it somewhere.


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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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