Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing

["Ian Wells" <i wells ntlworld com>]

> > So I'm kicking around this idea to help w/ QA testing.  What if Fedora
> > Legacy provided very base images of the releases we support for use with
> > vmplayer?
> That is the exact way that I Q&A 7.3 stuff.  I have VM images that are 
> near mirrors of production systems.  I d/l and test 7.3 updates on the VMs 
> before pushing them out to production.  It doesn't take much to produce a 
> VM to distribute to others for testing purposes.  HOWEVER the IP 
> addressing might present some setup issues for novices, and bandwidth 
> necessary to download the images would be quite high.

I think that this would be a very good idea - I already use this to QA other 
updates.

Ian