On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 16:14 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:49 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 11/09/2012 08:34 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> > >> Maybe you're talking about running Fedora as a vbox or vmware guest on > >> some other OS? > > > > > > Yup those are the use cases I'm concern about as in users running other OS > > and installing Fedora as an virtualzation guest in that OS. ( like Robyn > > pointed out with Vbox as in "people who do dev-type work on macs" ) > > Eh. There's certainly bugs in those cases too, because people install > the 'guest' drivers to share the host FS and such, or because the > implementation of the hypervisor is just broken. So like I said, I'm > not really thrilled about that case either. > > However, I will admit it is a more difficult case to call because at > least they're trying to use Linux in some form. I just don't think, > from a criteria perspective, that it's fair to compare it to dual boot. You might want to read back in the thread to a post from Kamil in response to me. I think we have a plausible way to go here, where we write a criterion which says something like 'There must be no issues in the installed system which prevent it from running as a guest on a VirtualBox host' (roughly - just the idea, not final wording). The point would be to only require that _we don't screw anything up_, not to say definitively that 'the release must work as a VBox guest', as we do for KVM. That gives us a get-out clause in the case where VBox itself is busted upstream, which we don't want to block for; so long as everything on the Fedora side was in order we'd be okay. That way we could have a test case for running Fedora as a VBox guest, and we could run it as part as validation, and if we ran into problems we'd figure out whether they were Fedora-side or VBox-side, and if they were Fedora-side they'd be blockers, but if they were VBox-side they wouldn't. Sensible? -- 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
