[Bug 670456] Re: Not clear that partitioning Ubuntu inside a VM doesn't touch host OS

[Simon Quigley]

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Not clear that partitioning Ubuntu inside a VM doesn't touch host OS

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

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.

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