> -----Original Message----- > From: Benoit Goderre [mailto:benoit.gode...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, February 8, 2016 22:05 > To: qa@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org > Subject: Re: Introduction as QA volunteer > > Thank you Dennis for your answer. > > I definitely agree that VMs have a lot of great advantages, as you > mentioned. > > I checked the Win 10 insider license and I don't think it is a > possibility. > > What do you guys do? Do you have a licensed VM for your testing? > [orcmid]
I can only answer for myself. I assume you mean a license Guest OS installed in a VM. I only have two installed guests for the moment. I have one Windows 10 Insider installed under the Hyper-V Manager that is part of Windows 10 Pro on a machine that has the necessary hardware capability for Hyper-V. I obtained that license during the Windows 10 Insider Technical Preview (and at the time the Hyper-V host was a now-upgraded Windows 8.1 device). I also have one Windows XP guest installed under Virtual Box on another machine. The XP license is one I have from an MSDN subscription. This is not for testing though - I need it as a web-development server. Virtual Box does not work well on the machine that has Hyper-V. The advantage of Hyper-V over Virtual Box is that Hyper-V will install 64-bit versions of Windows on a 64-bit Host. I don't have a current MSDN subscription, so I don't know what OS licenses there are for test use at this time. If you are at an academic institution, there may be suitable subscriptions available via the institution. Apache Committers have been eligible for free Microsoft MSDN subscriptions in the past. Those generally provide licenses to several operating-system installations for test purposes, with OS install ISOs available for download from the MSDN site. (I notice that I have existing keys for all versions from Windows XP through Windows 8 but not 8.1 and 10, released after my last MSDN subscription expired.) I don't know of any other avenue in the case of Windows guests for installation in/as VMs. For testing on Linux of course, the easy solution is to install under Virtual Box on whatever host you have available. I don't know what solutions are available for running OSX as a guest OS in a VM. [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org
