Interesting. I haven't done much testing but 10.04 because I'd almost rather take a beating than install a distro to suit my tastes.
If USB flash testing is good, I will have to take another look at it. I have accumulated a significant number of flash drives, up to 16GB. I probably can't do dailies, because it takes too long to download. But, I can work on alphas and betas. Thanks for info. On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 12:00 +0000, ubuntu-qa-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Send Ubuntu-qa mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ubuntu-qa-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ubuntu-qa-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-qa digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: VirtualBox Info (Jeff Lane) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:17:23 -0500 > From: Jeff Lane <j...@ubuntu.com> > To: ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: VirtualBox Info > Message-ID: <4d40ab83.4060...@ubuntu.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 01/25/2011 10:27 PM, rypedge...@operamail.com wrote: > > I understand no hardware testing can be done in VM's... > > With only the /daily releases sized for a cd, I'm limited. > > So off I go...to re-install a foobar'ed daily, on my second partition! > > You are correct, however don't let that stop you from testing. There's > no reason you couldn't test ANY of the daily ISO builds using VBox. > While we like having the ISOs tested on as many different types of > systems as possible, the act of ISO testing itself is valuable. I'd be > willing to bet that at least 75% of all installer bugs are found on VMs > by people participating in ISO testing days. > > Also, you can test any of the ISOs on your laptop directly, regardless > of ISO size. You can use usb-creator (it's under the > System/Administration menu) or unetbootin to make a bootable USB stick > from any of the ISO images. Provided your laptop supports booting from > USB storage (most, if not all, modern ones do) it's easy. > > But like I said, do not discount the value of ISO testing on VMs. We > use VMs a lot for testing the installer and other bits of Ubuntu that > aren't hardware specific. There are just a few caveats to testing this > way. For example, you can't do Wubi testing in VMs. But most other > methods work just fine, including the rescue mode tests, as long as your > VM's disk file is big enough to support multiple partitions. I usually > make mine about 22GB. > > Also, depending on your laptop hardware, don't count on being able to > run more than one at a time. I can run 2 simultaneously, but slowly due > to disk I/O bottlenecks, but if I put them on external storage devices > (usb disks, I can run 3 or 4 in sync. > > In fact, I've even built small clouds to do some light UEC testing in > VMs and build development environments in VMs. > > Cheers > Jeff > > > > > ------------------------------ > -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
