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I'd create storage volumes in another partition since the root partition has no window.
I follow the article:
https://fedoramagazine.org/getting-started-with-virtualization-in-gnome-boxes/
% ls -l .local/share/gnome-boxes
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 foo foo 39 Nov 15 12:39 .local/share/gnome-boxes -> ../../../../backup/gnome-boxes/foo
% rpm -q gnome-boxes
gnome-boxes-3.14.3.1-5.el7.x86_64
% gnome-boxes
(gnome-boxes:6285): Libvirt.GObject-CRITICAL **: gvir_storage_vol_get_info: assertion 'GVIR_IS_STORAGE_VOL(vol)' failed
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000000000048491b in boxes_vm_creator_on_machine_state_changed.isra.20 ()
(gdb) where
#0 0x000000000048491b in boxes_vm_creator_on_machine_state_changed.isra.20 ()
#1 0x0000000000484d08 in boxes_vm_creator_real_continue_installation_co ()
#2 0x00007ffff33fdf47 in g_simple_async_result_complete ()
at /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0
#3 0x00007ffff33fdfa9 in complete_in_idle_cb () at /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0
#4 0x00007ffff2e4d79a in g_main_context_dispatch ()
at /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff2e4dae8 in g_main_context_iterate.isra.24 ()
at /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 0x00007ffff2e4db9c in g_main_context_iteration ()
at /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7 0x00007ffff3430f24 in g_application_run () at /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0
#8 0x000000000045c299 in _vala_main ()
#9 0x00007ffff2848b15 in __libc_start_main () at /lib64/libc.so.6
#10 0x000000000042e325 in _start ()
I don't see the same problem in Fedora 24.
We don't support symlinking the backing storage files. But thanks to the recent improvements in gnome-boxes 3.36, you can now import a qcow2 file *without it getting copied* to Boxes' internal storage path. This way you can create a new VM from the qcow2 file (+ menu -> Create a Virtual Machine... -> Operating System Image File).