but wubi testing is preferred on real hardware, right??
Am 14.08.2012 12:06, schrieb Gema Gomez:
On 14/08/12 11:04, Ho Wan Chan wrote:
Mart,
Use Gema's opinion: She's an official Canonical employee, while I am
only a active community tester...
Hey, everyone's opinion count and is welcome!
More than a canonical employee I am a QA Engineer, I have been for many
years now, so I tried to give an explanation for a new comer from that
viewpoint, I hope everyone can benefit from it and I am open to
discussion if you guys think it may help.
Thanks everyone for your help,
Gema
2012/8/14 Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-sol...@canonical.com
<mailto:gema.gomez-sol...@canonical.com>>
Hi Mart,
I disagree with Ho Wan Chan, here is my opinion.
On 14/08/12 10:13, "Mart Küng" wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a couple of questions about how to configure my machine
when testing.
> Is there a significant difference if any between testing in virtual
> machine and installing on real hardware?
On virtual machines you are testing some parts of Ubuntu. On real
hardware you are testing others, in fact, depending on which hardware
you have, you are increasing our chances of finding problems for your
specific HW, because we don't have infinite HW to test on. Basically,
when you test on HW you are using drivers that noone else is potentially
using.
In the Platform QA Team in Canonical, we are testing with VMs for the
daily ISO testing, and we test on a variety of HW the different kernel
SRUs, so that we are reasonably confident that they will work on a wide
variety of HW.
Testing on HW is different from testing on VMs, both useful depending on
what you are trying to achieve, since with ISO testing we are trying to
cover as much HW as we can, testing on HW will be more useful from that
viewpoint.
>
> Would it be reasonable to dual boot version I'm testing with my
regular
> everyday system? I ask this because of my netbook: on my desktop I
could
> easily use virtual machine or change HDD-s. But netbook is to weak for
> virtual machine and changing HDD seams to troublesome.
You can dual boot your everyday system, but there are risks that an
installation goes wrong and you blow up your current system. That is the
reason why we don't recommend it. If you are confident you know your
system and that won't happen to you, I still recommend you have backups
of all the important documents before attempting the testing along your
existing system. Other than that, it is very useful that you install the
current version along an existing one, because many users will be doing
just that, and we want them to be able to do it.
Thanks,
Gema
>
> Mart
>
>
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