On 13/12/2006, at 11:07 PM, Shaun McDonald wrote:
On 13 Dec 2006, at 08:33, NAKATA Maho wrote:If you are on a Mac you can use Parallels Desktop for the creation of virtual machines.From: Alex Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [qa-dev] QA of OOo 2.1RC2(without JRE) Japanese on Fedora Core 6 on VMWare PlayerDate: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:56:55 +1000Wouldn't it be much easier and simpler (not to mention quicker and less error-prone) to simply download VMware Server 1.0.1? The entire creation of a suitable virtual machine takes approximately 5 minutes from the VMware Serverconsole....it seems to be...thanks for nice instruction. I'll commit this (and my mails) how to at qa.openoffice.org..(I just need to work out which variety of Linux would be best to use for testing the en-GB builds.)
How viable is this currently, for us to start doing?I'm really looking for the least complex way to get all the testing done. ;)
If I can run all the tests from my MacBook, that will be great. I do intend to delegate testing when I have people to whom I can delegate, but currently I'm stuck with the formal testing.
One Mac, one person. Additionally, I now [1] find it difficult to learn new things, which is why I ask so many questions. So taking on anything new is a big thing for me: it will take quite a while for me to work it out, and a lot of effort. Choosing the simplest/most easily understood approach in the first place can save me a lot of wasted time.
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN [1] brain damage, progressive, due to disease: http://www.ahummingbirdsguide.com/Also v difficult to perform any processing or analytical task; virtually all of my languages, human and machine, are gone, and I'm lucky if I can write a simple regex on a good day.
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