<div>Mart,</div><div> </div><div>Use Gema's opinion: She's an official Canonical employee, while I am only a active community tester...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/14 Gema Gomez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gema.gomez-solano@canonical.com" target="_blank">gema.gomez-solano@canonical.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">Hi Mart,<br>
<br>
I disagree with Ho Wan Chan, here is my opinion.<br>
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On 14/08/12 10:13, "Mart Küng" wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
><br>
> I have a couple of questions about how to configure my machine when testing.<br>
> Is there a significant difference if any between testing in virtual<br>
> machine and installing on real hardware?<br>
<br>
</div>On virtual machines you are testing some parts of Ubuntu. On real<br>
hardware you are testing others, in fact, depending on which hardware<br>
you have, you are increasing our chances of finding problems for your<br>
specific HW, because we don't have infinite HW to test on. Basically,<br>
when you test on HW you are using drivers that noone else is potentially<br>
using.<br>
<br>
In the Platform QA Team in Canonical, we are testing with VMs for the<br>
daily ISO testing, and we test on a variety of HW the different kernel<br>
SRUs, so that we are reasonably confident that they will work on a wide<br>
variety of HW.<br>
<br>
Testing on HW is different from testing on VMs, both useful depending on<br>
what you are trying to achieve, since with ISO testing we are trying to<br>
cover as much HW as we can, testing on HW will be more useful from that<br>
viewpoint.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Would it be reasonable to dual boot version I'm testing with my regular<br>
> everyday system? I ask this because of my netbook: on my desktop I could<br>
> easily use virtual machine or change HDD-s. But netbook is to weak for<br>
> virtual machine and changing HDD seams to troublesome.<br>
<br>
</div>You can dual boot your everyday system, but there are risks that an<br>
installation goes wrong and you blow up your current system. That is the<br>
reason why we don't recommend it. If you are confident you know your<br>
system and that won't happen to you, I still recommend you have backups<br>
of all the important documents before attempting the testing along your<br>
existing system. Other than that, it is very useful that you install the<br>
current version along an existing one, because many users will be doing<br>
just that, and we want them to be able to do it.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Gema<br>
<br>
><br>
> Mart<br>
><br>
><br>
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