crazy thought about how to ease QA testing

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 16:43 -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> I don't think so, as we would not be either distributing or requiring
> any non-open solution.  We're just making it easier for people who
> are using a VM system, open or not, to do QA.

Well, the image would be vmware (vmplayer) specific.  But since that is
free to the public we aren't breaking any laws or asking people to.

> There are open VM projects also, so we could always try that route,
> if they check out.

Unfortunately most the open ones like Xen or qemu require some heavy
changes to the client OS which just isn't going to happen for RHL or
early FC.  FC5 and later can use anaconda to install into a Xen session,
so when we pick up those Xen can easily be used to test stuff, just not
yet.

> > Maybe an unofficial HOWTO on how to setup a vmware host is the best?
> 
> Yes. The only thing we need to distribute is an OS to run in it, not
> the actual VM software.  Instructions on using it with various VM
> products would be most useful.
> 
> > No official endorsement of non open source parts, and testers still
> > have a receipe on how to do their QA on virtual machines.
> 
> Yes, sounds good.
> 
> My understanding of Jesse's e-mail was we were providing just an image, not
> a "virtual machine image".  If I'm wrong, then I would understand your
> concern.  I guess maybe Jesse can clarify what he meant by "image". 

In this case, the image would be the file that vmplayer software can
use.  I don't think the image file would be useful to any other
software.

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