>>>>On 9 August 2012 22:52, Jackson Doak <doak.jack...@gmail.com> wrote: > does the mac version work in a virtual machine?
Tried that here using Virtual Box. Attempted to boot the virtual machine from the CD. That failed. Ron Mitchell On 2012-08-09, at 3:18 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi Jackson, > > as far as I know, there is no legal VM for amd64-mac system. There is for the > older PPC systems (G3, G4, G5) > > Maybe get him to start with Live CD, then install as side by side? Once he > sees the difference I'm sure he will be a convert :) > > Regards, > > Phill. > > On 9 August 2012 22:52, Jackson Doak <doak.jack...@gmail.com> wrote: > does the mac version work in a virtual machine? i have access to one but > windows is installed and my brother wont allow ubuntu to be put on. > > jackson > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Nicholas Skaggs > <nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote: > A special thanks to all of our testers this week! > > gregfaith, victor.zhou, redmar, larsnooden, carla-sella, michael-kroll, > doak-jackson, k1fri, sjskaggs, kate.stewart, fabiomarconi, smartboyhw, > lbsolost, robinc > > The status page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Cadence/Status) is > showing we still need some help on amd64+mac, along with some test for wubi, > and ARM. I'll be testing ARM tonight and tomorrow, those of you with ARM > hardware consider also pitching in a result this week if your able :-) I know > Tobias is still working on results for wubi as well, and I can help with the > cd boot helper tests. That just leaves us with the amd64+mac builds to test. > Does anyone have mac hardware who is willing to test an install for this iso? > > Thanks! > > Nicholas > > P.S. I've seen bugs and reports that ubiquity is buggy and unstable in todays > build. If you find that to be true in testing, don't panic! File any bugs you > find and try to complete the install. If it fails, still report it. A failed > to install is still a valid result! > > > On 08/08/2012 04:47 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: >> What I've taken to calling 'cadence' testing, is the testing of the daily >> builds of isos (specifically those focused on the desktop and ubuntu) over >> the course of a non-milestone week, with the intent of insuring the >> mandatory testcases for those isos pass. I know this has been a difficult >> thing to understand, and sadly, right now the isotracker doesn't allow us to >> do this testing in a nice and easy to see way. We plan to fix this by >> allowing you to better browse history but for now we'll have to work-around >> the limitation (BTW, if anyone knows drupal and wishes to help land this >> quicker, I would be happy to help set you up. We can always use more >> developers!). >> >> I've put together a wiki page that I will update once a day this week (about >> 1400 UTC, manually) with the targeted testcases and their status. The page >> is located here. >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Cadence/Status >> >> I hope this proves helpful to everyone, and as you can see we already have >> results for many of the testcases. We need folks who have access to ARM and >> MAC to also contribute a result for a testcase to help round us out. >> >> As you can see, I've placed a quick summary of our progress on each of the >> isos and testcases at the top, followed by the raw results in a tabular >> format of those who have tested. Please don't panic if that raw list is >> missing some of your testing! I still see the results submitted from those >> of you who have tested server, or alt images, or another flavor. For >> brevity's sake on this page, it's filtered to only show the runs for the >> isos above. >> >> I hope this helps and thank you for sticking with the testing on this. ISO >> testing is going to continue to be something for all of us to iterate upon >> and improve to make better. We as a community want to provide solid, >> dependable results and good feedback, while still being mindful of our >> efforts and time spent. Thanks, >> >> Nicholas >> >> > > > -- > Ubuntu-qa mailing list > Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > > > > -- > Ubuntu-qa mailing list > Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : lubuntu...@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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