Edit the Libvirt domain XML configuration of a box

Boxes enables you to manually edit the Libvirt domain configuration XML of your box. You can achieve specific setups which are not exposed in the Boxes interface and neither supported by the Boxes developers.

See the Libvirt domain configuration format in documentation at https://libvirt.org/format.html

To edit the Libvirt XML configuration of a box:

  1. Right-click on the box in the collection view and select Preferences, or click the menu (settings) button in the header bar and select Preferences.

  2. Click the Resources tab.

  3. Scroll to the Configuration section.

  4. Click the Edit Configuration button to open the configuration in a text editor.

  5. Edit the XML configuration and Save.

  6. If the virtual machine which has been edited is already running, the changes will take effect after restarting the running virtual machine.

Before editing the box configuration, Boxes will suggest that you create a snapshot. Snapshots allow you to revert your changes in case of a mistake.