On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 11:08 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 11:59:31PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > We would just not have the Fedora release dependent upon the result from > > > those tests... > > > In practice what usually happens is I fire up the VM I keep around > > specifically for this purpose and do the test on the last few Final > > builds. Takes me about ten minutes a shot. > > Can you test with UEFI in a VM? I could, but I never have. I'm not sure we'd block on dualboot-alongside-UEFI-native-Windows, at least not up until now. But different now W8 is out. > I ran into the problem that I couldn't dualboot with Windows 8 > under UEFI (because it appears 'os-prober' can't speak EFI yet!) > This was a 'bare metal' install obviously. (Bugzilla: 873207) > > So I think Johann does have a slight point, though he expresses > most of his opinions rather bluntly :) Well, 'more testing is always better' is always a valid point, but practically not of much use. I'm happier for us to be testing dualboot with Windows a bit than to be testing it not at all. Testing it a lot would obviously be better. > I however would vote for keeping some minimal QA attention fixed to > dual booting as I occasionaly have a use for Windows. > (And running Windows in a VM is merde on these stupid 16:9 laptop > screens). > > OT 1: > Apart from the 'pain in the anaconda' bit and some slight hiccups > (are there dracut changes for example?) F18 runs smoothly and beautifully. > > OT 2: > The default install of Windows 8 is clean and smart. Much simpler and > faster than fancy pants anaconda-new (but then of course Windows does > not aim for all these diverse situations). Yes, it's very easy to be clean and smart if you offer no options for partitioning, install source, or package set :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
