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 > > -- Gema Gomez-Solano <gema.gomez-sol...@canonical.com> Ubuntu QA Team https://launchpad.net/~gema.gomez Canonical Ltd. http://www.canonical.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
