Hi Alexey,

On Dienstag, 13. Februar 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote:

I have decided that this is good time for a new article to come into SUSE documentation (Lessons for Lizards), that aims to integrate better between the two products and communities.

That's great!

This article introduces VirtualBox to SUSErs (SUSE users) and explains step-by-step how-to install this product on openSUSE, how to run and troubleshoot and where to get help.

VirtualBox is a full x86 virtualizer, like VMware, to me it's revolutionary, because it's the world's first user-friendly open-source solution in this class. I believe that people, who use VMware or VirtualPC should try this.

Yes, it's very promising. I tried it over the weekend, but had only two problems: My DVD drive wasn't recognised so I had to create an ISO image to boot. The second issue had something to do with fullscreen. After I switched to fullscreen mode I couldn't go back. That was strange, but maybe it was my fault.

[...] Hope it will help people getting started.

What do you think of it?

Great lesson! I thought of an article about VirtualBox too, but you was faster than me. :)

I have only some suggestions for you, mainly technical stuff. Hope you find it useful:

1. I would replace the content of the two screen elements with an itemizedlist element. It seems to me this has nothing to do with computer generated input or output, isn't it? :)

2. A minor issue: What do you think about putting your terminology into a variablelist?

3. Mark up in section Procedure, step 2 the text ~/vm with <filename>~/vm</filename>

4. Also a minor issue: I would recommend to mark up menu items with menuchoice like this (see section Procedure, step 3): <menuchoice> <guimenu>Security and Users</guimenu> <guimenu>Group Management</guimenu> <guimenu>vboxusers</guimenu> </menuchoice>

5. More important: If you have a warning for your readers, use the element warning. The stylesheets render this with or without nice little graphics, depending on the setup (see section Procedure, step 3):

<warning> <title>Be Careful With Your Setup</title><!-- Optional title --> <para>This step is critical, one mistake and VirtualBox will not work !</para> </warning>

6. If you have a solution to the fullscreen problem above, maybe you can add it to your "Troubleshooting and Tips" section. :)

7. Someone created RPM packages[1] of VirtualBox. What do you think of inserting this information into your article too?

Thanks Alexey! If something is unclear from my list, don't hesitate to ask again.

I hope Frank or I can synchronise the new book today, available on the usual URL[2].

Bye, Tom

---- [1] http://software.opensuse.org/download/virtualization/ [2] http://forgeftp.novell.com/lfl/.html/