On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 22:02 -0400, Bob Lightfoot wrote: > Dear Testing Community: > > As a community member who has helped with testing on recent releases F12 > & F13 I wanted to ask for clarification and consensus on something going > into the F14 testing cycle on a couple of questions key to me. > > 1. When we are doing installation and operational testing what is the > general feeling about using VM's versus actual hardware? It's always better to test in a VM than not at all. We would like to have at least some of us running on real hardware, though, because there are bugs you just won't catch in a VM. > 2. When the install calls for use of DVD, CD or LiveMedia is it > acceptable to use DVD.iso, CD.iso or LiveMedia.iso mounted to a VM as a > DVD, CD or LiveMedia? In most cases yes. If you're doing a specific test whose primary purpose is to check something about the media - such as whether you can successfully perform an installation from it - we'd definitely need a test of 'the real thing'. Ideally those tests should in fact be run *both* ways - we'd want to make sure you can install from the DVD ISO both burned to a DVD and mounted as a DVD drive inside a VM (using the Fedora virt stack, of course), for instance. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
