Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th May 2007 22:36 UTC, submitted by AdamW
"Have you ever wished you had another computer handy? Maybe you want to try a new operating system out. Maybe you want to test something experimental without potentially breaking your own system. Maybe you need to run some software that only runs in a different operating system. Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring comes with a range of virtualization options that can help."
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2005-07-06
I don't see much there that our article is missing. the nmi_watchdog thing I may add to the article since someone mentioned encountering it in the comments. Otherwise...there's a long description of what VirtualBox is, which is great but I don't think really needed, the installation instructions are necessarily longer because the package is obviously not in the official repos (the MDV one is), and it takes a different approach to describing the app itself, trying to give an overview of all functionality rather than simply walk you through getting it up and running. Which is a perfectly good approach, but I think ours is too: it walks you through getting it going, then directs you to the official documentation for further info.
edit: forgot to mention - it also discusses a lot of stuff which only works in the proprietary edition. Our package is the open source edition, obviously, as it's in our open source repos.
Edited 2007-05-06 18:13