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QEMU vs Gnome Boxes
When comparing QEMU vs Gnome Boxes, the Slant community recommends Gnome Boxes for most people. In the question“What are the best virtual machines for Ubuntu?” Gnome Boxes is ranked 1st while QEMU is ranked 3rd.
Specs
PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac
PlatformsLinux
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Pros
Pro Near-native performance
Pro Free and open source
QEMU is available for free with source code available here.
Pro Can do snapshots
QEMU is capable of taking whole-system snapshots and writing them to a backing file.