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Gnome Boxes alternative for KDE. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey people,

Recently I switched to KDE Plasma on all of my devices and I like it a lot, however one thing I would still like to see is a virtual machine KDE application. I would be more than happy to get my hands dirty, however I don't quite know what I am expecting so I have a few questions:

As far as I am aware, Boxes is just an interface, written with GTK, for QEMU. Is doing the same with Kirigami feasible for a solo developer.
Moreover I am quite profound in C++ and programming in general, but I never worked on bigger projects
I am quite amazed by Parallels in MacOs, would it be possible to copy some features for KDE, i.e a vm occupying a whole virtual desktop, or single windows "popping" out of the vm.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/6uv167/is_there_a_kde_equivalent_to_gnome_boxes/

Tldr - Virtualbox uses qt5 and virt manager is also supported

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

virt-manager is a great vm manager with kde compatibility, i use it all the time

[–] cspiegel 2 points 2 years ago

There is a Qt interface for libvirt, called qt-virt-manager. This is a rough analog of virt-manager. Unfortunately, it hasn't seen a release since August 2021, nor a git commit since the same time. The good news is that it's written in C++: if you're so inclined, you ought to be able to get up to speed at least a bit faster than you would with a project in another language.

As much as I'd like a KDE-native VM GUI, I still just use virt-manager since it's maintained, and gets the job done. Generally I'm just using ssh to access VMs anyway, so it hardly matters. But if qt-virt-manager made a comeback, I'd definitely give it strong consideration.