[PATCH] Add a VirtualBox section to Handbook's 'Virtualization' chapter
Manolis Kiagias
manolis at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 18 07:01:20 UTC 2009
Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2009.07.15 13:45:11 +0900, Daichi GOTO wrote:
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> [replying to random post in the thread]
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>> For a number of years, FreeBSD was not officially supported as....
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>
> Is this statement really correct? qemu has been running fine on
> FreeBSD for quite a while...
>
> Personally I think the entire first parapgrah could just be cut... I
> don't think the history part matters for readers of the handbook.
>
But isn't qemu distinctly different in the way it works from a
virtualization program like VMWare or VirtualBox?
I think the first paragraph serves well as a gentle introduction to the
topic.
> One nit is that the text contains 'UNIX®-type' - that's not allowed
> for the UNIX trademark (and in general probably not for most
> trademarks). Something like 'UNIX® like' should be fine.
>
Yes, I think you are right here.
> On a simlar note "Sun(tm)'s" should just be "Sun's" as it's refering
> to Sun, the company, and not Sun as used as part of a trademark. For
> added fun VirtualBox is actually a Sun trademark [1] and should be
> handled as such. I'm suddenly reminded that I know way more about
> trademarks than I want to :-).
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>
Heh, definitely. So I'll add a trademark for VirtualBox.
> Oh, and s/wiki.freebsd.org/wiki.FreeBSD.org/
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Right here too. I'll commit these changes later today.
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