Upcoming Review: VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner's Guide

Regular readers know I’m a fan of ebooks, and have recently written several posts about reading ebooks on your computer.  I’m also a fan of desktop virtualization, and have published numerous articles here and at How-to Geek about Virtual PC, VMware, VirtualBox, and the (in my words) Desktop Virtualization Wars.  So, when I was recently contacted by a representative of Packt Publishing about reviewing a book they’ve recently published on VirtualBox, I thought it’d be an interesting opportunity to try something new – reviewing an ebook.

First off, VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner’s Guide, the book I will be reviewing, is available both as a print book and an ebook.  Packt Publishing always published their books both in paper form and as a DRM-free PDF, which is very nice.  This book is aimed at helping users who are new at desktop virtualization get up to speed quickly with step-by-step tutorials on using VirtualBox.  The book’s style is similar to the For Dummies books, so if you enjoy those type of books you may find this book both enjoyable and helpful.  You won’t learn how to manage enterprise virtualization from this book, but for those who are starting out, it may be a great help.

I’ll be reading this book over the next couple weeks before I write an actual review, but I’d also like your help.  What would you like to find out about this book?  Do you have any questions I could help answer in the review?  Check out the free preview chapter of the book at this link, and then sound off in the comments about what you’d like to see in the review.  Hopefully this will be the first of many tech ebook reviews here at Techinch, so please give your feedback and we’ll see where this goes together!

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