<s>
GNOME	B-Language
Boxes	I-Language
is	O
an	O
application	O
of	O
the	O
GNOME	B-Application
Desktop	I-Application
Environment	I-Application
,	O
used	O
to	O
access	O
virtual	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Boxes	O
uses	O
the	O
QEMU	B-Application
,	O
KVM	B-Application
,	O
and	O
libvirt	B-Language
virtualization	O
technologies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GNOME	B-Language
Boxes	I-Language
requires	O
the	O
CPU	O
to	O
support	O
some	O
form	O
of	O
hardware-assisted	O
virtualization	O
(	O
AMD-V	O
or	O
Intel	O
VT-x	O
,	O
for	O
example	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GNOME	B-Language
Boxes	I-Language
was	O
initially	O
introduced	O
as	O
beta	O
software	O
in	O
GNOME	B-Application
3.3	O
(	O
development	O
branch	O
for	O
3.4	O
)	O
as	O
of	O
Dec	O
2011	O
,	O
and	O
as	O
a	O
preview	O
release	O
in	O
GNOME	B-Application
3.4	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
primary	O
functions	O
were	O
as	O
a	O
virtual	B-Language
machine	I-Language
manager	I-Language
,	O
remote	O
desktop	O
client	O
(	O
over	O
VNC	B-Protocol
)	O
,	O
and	O
remote	O
filesystem	O
browser	O
,	O
utilizing	O
the	O
libvirt	B-Language
,	O
libvirt-glib	O
,	O
and	O
libosinfo	O
technologies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Boxes	O
possesses	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
easily	O
create	O
local	O
virtual	O
machines	O
from	O
a	O
standard	O
disk	B-Application
image	I-Application
file	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
an	O
ISO	B-General_Concept
image	I-General_Concept
while	O
requiring	O
minimum	O
user	O
input	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
version	O
40	O
,	O
the	O
remote	O
connection	O
functionality	O
has	O
been	O
moved	O
to	O
the	O
separate	O
application	O
,	O
GNOME	B-Application
Connections	O
.	O
</s>
