Not clear that partitioning Ubuntu inside a VM doesn't touch host OS
Bug #670456 reported by
Matthew Paul Thomas
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
In an informal user test of Ubiquity, our test participant was installing inside a VirtualBox virtual machine on Mac OS X, and didn't know whether he should partition the disk to leave Mac OS X intact.
If a non-trivial proportion of Ubuntu users install it inside a VM, it may be worth detecting it (in the same way as it's detected for the "Who are you?" step) and adding an extra sentence to explain that you can safely use the "entire disk" without wiping the host operating system. Or even just changing "Use Entire Disk" to "Use Entire Virtual Machine", or something like that.
Revision history for this message
| Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
Revision history for this message
| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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