Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:24 AM:

> This method works on a virtual machine without problems. But when I try

I'm not at all familiar with preseed.  What I can tell you is that VM guests
typically deal with abstracted phantom hardware because the virtual machine
itself is a phantom.  That's the whole point.  Guests never see the real
hardware, or BIOS, or etc, except in the case of paravirtualization, but afaik,
those guests still don't see the real hardware picture, only parts of it,
specifically device drivers.

Testing OS installs, partitioning, etc, is not something you ever want to be
doing in a virtual machine environment as the results will always be different
than on real bare metal hardware.

The whole point of virtualization is abstracting the underlying hardware from
the guest operating system.

And yet, you are surprised by the results?

-- 
Stan