Boxes on RHEL and Compatible Distributions

CentOS should be installed, complete with the Gnome desktop environment as the host operating system. CentOS includes the full complement of KVM-centric virtualization tools including the GUI-based virtualization management tools Boxes and virt-manager and the shell-based virtualization management tool virsh.

This procedure assumes Boxes is used to setup and manage the Lighthouse VM and that the required PKZip archive, lighthouse-23.10.0-ovf.zip is in ~/Downloads.

To install Lighthouse on CentOS:

  1. Unzip lighthouse-23.10.0-ovf.zip.
    This creates a folder Lighthouse.ovf in ~/Downloads that contains the following files and folders:

    Image showing files of Lighthouse.OVF

  2. Launch Boxes

  3. Click New in the Boxes title bar.

  4. Navigate to ~/Downloads/Lighthouse.ovf/Opengear Lighthouse VM/

  5. Select Opengear Lighthouse VM and click Open. A new virtual machine, called Opengear LighthouseVM is added to the list of virtual machines available to Boxes.