Well, guest-fish is an additional extra to virt-manager, I have it scheduled up as a 2nd classroom session. It is up to you as to if you cover the additional pack for VBox. I think it is also included to be able to do basic usage such as printing to a usb printer. It's your session, do as you think is best!
Regards, Phill. On 2 June 2013 00:52, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 06/01/2013 04:28 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > > > as usb creator seems a bit broken at present, putting an iso onto a > > usb drive to check that the installer works is handy as it does not > > need people to keep burning CD's / DVD's (Images often go over sized > > between milestones). I've just been told that at least one of lubuntu > > saucy images is now over sized. > > Well, yes, OK, USB sticks are convenient (but not actually necessary) > for testing on physical hardware. But isn't that somewhat irrelevant to > testing on virtual machines? > > If you are using VirtualBox or KVM for testing, then you do not need any > physical removable media at all. No CDs. No DVDs. No USB sticks. You > download the ISO file to your host hard drive, and you tell VirtualBox > that your test VM wants to use that file as a virtual CDROM. Job done. > No burning optical media or copying to USB sticks is needed whatsoever. > Both the drive and the optical media are virtual, just like the test > machine itself. > > So, my question remains. Is there really a need for USB stick access > for Ubuntu ISO testing, in particular for ISO testing using VMs? > > I am getting the impression that the answer is probably "no", but given > the wiki pages that currently suggest adding the Extension Pack for this > exact purpose (direct access to USB sticks from a VM), I would prefer > someone who really knows confirm that impression, before I write and > teach a classroom session about using VirtualBox for Ubuntu ISO testing > that says "don't install the Extension Pack because you do not need it" :) > > Now, if we need to test that these "hybrid" ISOs really do boot from USB > stick as well as from optical media, then logically we would have a test > case for testing that, which has to be done on real (non-virtual) > hardware. But (rather oddly!) I do not see such a test case anywhere. > > Jonathan > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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