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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well,

guest-fish is an additional extra to virt-manager, I have it scheduled up
as a 2nd classroom session. It is up to you as to if you cover the
additional pack for VBox. I think it is also included to be able to do
basic usage such as printing to a usb printer. It's your session, do as you
think is best!

Regards,

Phill.

On 2 June 2013 00:52, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06/01/2013 04:28 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>
> > as usb creator seems a bit broken at present, putting an iso onto a
> > usb drive to check that the installer works is handy as it does not
> > need people to keep burning CD's / DVD's (Images often go over sized
> > between milestones). I've just been told that at least one of lubuntu
> > saucy images is now over sized.
>
> Well, yes, OK, USB sticks are convenient (but not actually necessary)
> for testing on physical hardware.  But isn't that somewhat irrelevant to
> testing on virtual machines?
>
> If you are using VirtualBox or KVM for testing, then you do not need any
> physical removable media at all.  No CDs.  No DVDs.  No USB sticks.  You
> download the ISO file to your host hard drive, and you tell VirtualBox
> that your test VM wants to use that file as a virtual CDROM.  Job done.
>  No burning optical media or copying to USB sticks is needed whatsoever.
>  Both the drive and the optical media are virtual, just like the test
> machine itself.
>
> So, my question remains.  Is there really a need for USB stick access
> for Ubuntu ISO testing, in particular for ISO testing using VMs?
>
> I am getting the impression that the answer is probably "no", but given
> the wiki pages that currently suggest adding the Extension Pack for this
> exact purpose (direct access to USB sticks from a VM), I would prefer
> someone who really knows confirm that impression, before I write and
> teach a classroom session about using VirtualBox for Ubuntu ISO testing
> that says "don't install the Extension Pack because you do not need it" :)
>
> Now, if we need to test that these "hybrid" ISOs really do boot from USB
> stick as well as from optical media, then logically we would have a test
> case for testing that, which has to be done on real (non-virtual)
> hardware.  But (rather oddly!) I do not see such a test case anywhere.
>
> Jonathan
>



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