On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Dec 26, 2011, at 17:43, Jasper Frumau wrote: > > > A virtual machine as in VirtualBox or Vmware Fusion with XP or Windows 7 > I already have running. Was just curious if Wine could be a better and > faster alternative. > > Using Wine would certainly take less disk space (Microsoft's virtual > machines are huge), but the articles I've read, and my own experiences, > show that what you get out of Wine isn't a 100% accurate emulation. And > since the goal would be to ensure that the user experience is correct for > users of Internet Explorer running on Windows, it's probably best to test > on Internet Explorer running on Windows. > Yeah that has been my experience so far as well. Will stick to my virtual boxes for now. I need a 100% accurate emulation and for that I have several boxes running different IE versions. Windows 7 in a box just eats a lot of memory and slows down my machine. XP is not too bad.
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