Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-20 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 2/19/07, Joe Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the status of getting Xen on FreeBSD? It's a shame that an emulator is required to run Windows on the same architecture. Does Qemu virtualized on x86 hardware? I wish Xen is really working in FreeBSD by now :) -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-19 Thread Apatewna
Peter, Oliver wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:35:30AM +0200, Apatewna wrote: ... There is also www.win4bsd.com, although a commercial application and still at its infancy (v1.1) it works quite well. ... it is only a nicer frontend to qemu, isn't it ? Yes it is and it uses kqemu also.

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-19 Thread Tom Grove
Bill Moran wrote: Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? In addition to everything else

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Auty
What is the status of getting Xen on FreeBSD? It's a shame that an emulator is required to run Windows on the same architecture. Does Qemu virtualized on x86 hardware? On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Tom Grove wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do a bit of web

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-18 Thread Matt \Kitche\ Donovan
Kevin Downey wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? Not sure if it works on frebsd but you can try ie4linux.

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-18 Thread Peter, Oliver
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:35:30AM +0200, Apatewna wrote: ... There is also www.win4bsd.com, although a commercial application and still at its infancy (v1.1) it works quite well. ... it is only a nicer frontend to qemu, isn't it ? -- Oliver Peter, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-02-16 16:15, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? For one of the ActiveX sites I

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Chris
Kevin Downey wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? Four ways - in order of ease to hardness 1. Separate box that IS Windows.

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? In addition to everything else that's been suggested, give

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 16 February 2007 19:32, Chris wrote: Kevin Downey wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? Four ways - in order of

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:48:38PM -0500, John Nielsen wrote: If you do get a happily functioning wine, there's a nice shell script (requires bash) package that will automatically fetch the IE binaries and dependent packages and set everything up for you. I can't remember what it's called

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Eric Schuele
On 02/16/2007 19:11, Bill Moran wrote: Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? In addition to

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Kevin Downey
On 2/16/07, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/16/2007 19:11, Bill Moran wrote: Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-16 Thread Apatewna
Kevin Downey wrote: I'll second the qemu. And the speed (or lack thereof) is bearable if you get kqemu going as well. -- Regards, Eric I see. rdesktop would be great if I had windows installed anywhere :P Well, thanks everyone There is also www.win4bsd.com, although a commercial