Blessed virtual machines? (Precise uninstallable on vmware)

[Scott Ritchie]

On 01/16/2012 01:50 AM, Gema Gomez wrote:
> On 16/01/12 09:04, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>> Ubiquity has been crashing for me on VMware Player, both for dailies and
>> Alpha 1.  This sounds like the sort of bug that wouldn't have survived
>> long if vmware installs were part of the new smoke testing process.
> 
> Thanks for suggesting the addition of new test cases to the smoke
> testing process. The resolution of this bug will tell us where the
> problem is, but it sounds as if the problem is on the VMware side rather
> than on the Ubuntu side.
> 

As an update, I've isolated the issue to VMware's easy install feature,
which can be worked around by setting the VM to not automatically power
on at creation and then manually removing the autoinst.flp floppy and
autoinst.iso CD drive in the settings.  This gives a full manual install
when you boot the VM.

> Smoke testing is meant to verify the product is suitable for further
> testing and dev usage, not to determine whether Precise would work in
> every other visualization/hardware platform. What you are suggesting is
> interoperability testing, rather than smoke testing, also a valid test
> case, so we'll add it to our test suite in due time (please, drop us an
> email if you get to it earlier). We can add it straight away to our
> milestone testing, and do it manually for the time being.
> 

Fair enough, though in my use case I couldn't hack on Precise until I
got a virtual machine setup working, so it seems like at least one VM
solution should be a part of the smoke testing process.  But that's
apparently KVM, not VMware.

>>
>> Is there a "blessed" (ie, regularly tested working) VM for Ubuntu out there?
> 
> If you want to use the same one the QA team are using for automated
> smoke testing, go for KVM. It's the one we have more coverage for at the
> moment and it is used more widely in the community afaik.
> 

If it's the one you're using for the smoke testing, then that seems like
the choice to use then.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie