On 18/12/2006, at 10:04 PM, André Schnabel wrote:
Hi Vito, Vito Smolej schrieb:hi Maho-san:What are the reasons behind working with VMware -besides trying to do everything on one single physical system? Is it not counterproductive, at least in some cases, which we are witnessing right now (see below), given the additional complexity and (let me formulate it in simple terms) significantlky higher chance of screwing around and screwing up?Example of what I mean: the old (2 years) notebook I bought for 80 € will just do fine for windows sanity etc checks - it did so far -.Simple answer: not everyone owns a nootbook for every platform she would like to test. If you own such a system that's fine - use it for testing. If not, you may use a vm image. This is just freedom of joice.Just to give an example (how I do my tests): - automated windows XP tests run on my laptop - automated tests for Suse Linux run on my linux box- I do the manual tests for Win XP on my main desktop (as well as for linux - via remote access to my linux box) - automated tests for Win98SE run on a VM ware session (as I own only three computers ;-) ) - in case I have the time, I can boot a VM ware session for Solaris, FreeBSD or ReactOS (unfortunately I never had the time to do extensive tests on that platforms)Nobody forces you to use vmware .. it is just an option.
Definitely a valid option. As Vito points out, I am having trouble with learning all this (I wouldn't pass QA on human beings nowadays ;) ) but I hope to get there eventually.
In my house, we are fortunate enough to have a range of machines on the home net: my Intel Macbook, the PPC G4 attached to my teenage daughter and her graphics pad, my husband's venerable laptop running Debian, and a ghastly Windows box my daughter's school has lent her because they can't understand anything else.
However, since I'm bedridden, I can only use a laptop, so VMWare, if I ever get it worked out, would be a good option for me. I hope to do QA on the G4 via Desktop Transporter (which handles non-English keyboards, unlike VNC). I don't have any experience with cross- platform remote work yet.
If I do install VMWare, do I still have to buy Windows? Now that would be a serious waste of good money. Besides, I'm saving up for Leopard. :D
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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