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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,

I've had a chat with Nicholas, the use of qemu has been added to his "TODO'
list. Indeed it does offer both PPC and ARM virtualisation.

Indeed, Lance, real machines are best. But especially in the (pre) alpha
stages, using a VM can be useful.

Regards,

Phill.



On 3 August 2012 09:16, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 8/3/12 6:33 AM, Lance wrote:
> > IMHO it should be mentioned that testing on actual hardware is
> preferable to testing in a VM. I believe a lot of ubiquity and xserver bugs
> are overlooked when testing in a VM.
> >
> > That said, any testing is preferable to no testing ;^)
> >
> > Lance
> >
> Also, though VirtualBox is quite nice, using Qemu would allow testing of
> the PPC architecture, too.
> At some point Ubuntu, and thus Lubuntu, will probably offer ARM
> officially, so we should try to be prepared.
>
> Regards,
> /Lars
>
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