https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 Summary: Please consider including VirtualBox (OSS competitor to VMware) Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 2 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: al4321@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Hi all ! Please consider including VirtualBox package with openSUSE 10.3. I'm heavy emulators/virtualization user, so this addition would be important for me. openSUSE already includes many products from that field, including Bochs, Qemu, DOSBox, Xen, ... so why not add this one too ? This new virtualization solution appeared on the market only recently, in 2007 as open-source GPL'ed product. I think it is better than the currently existing Open-Source solutions. This product is very high-class and an excellent competitor to proprietary software such as VMware, and so, the least we can do as a community, is to support this effort, and build a competition to the very pricey&proprietary VMware. On my side, I have made a push of VirtualBox into 10.3 - I did it by submitting VirtualBox detailed step-by-step setup article into Lessons for Lizards, so if the package gets included it will have documentation already available. So openSUSE 10.3 final release has a good chance to have both the package and my documentation available same-day-release. I want the final users of 10.3 to get maximum. NOTE: There is an official documentation available, but it deals poorly with SUSE-specific issues, so my documentation has an added extra-value. You can read my VirtualBox guide here: http://www.violtan.com/ae/virtualbox.html Alternatively, you can download it from LfL SVN. VirtualBox Home Page: www.virtualbox.org What do you think of it? For questions, email me: al4321@gmail.com PS. I promise to update documentation and support VBox users. -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.