Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing
John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com a écrit : Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... Don't need sound card or anything complex... if I can get it working good enough to have access to IE 6, 7, and 8 (with 3 different virtual boxes, probably), that would be enough for me. But before I jump through the hoops of setting up a new FreeBSD box and setting up this virtual box software, I'd like to hear how others have fared with this software. Any experience, much appreciated. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org It seems that VirtualBox still has problems, according to the FreeBSD wiki : http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox Maybe you should try qemu instead, as it seems much more stable now : http://wiki.freebsd.org/qemu I used qemu to virtualize Windows Server 2003 some time ago (on Gentoo and Mandriva boxes), and it was working (as long as you consider that a Windows system works). Julien Gormotte This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:02 AM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... Don't need sound card or anything complex... if I can get it working good enough to have access to IE 6, 7, and 8 (with 3 different virtual boxes, probably), that would be enough for me. But before I jump through the hoops of setting up a new FreeBSD box and setting up this virtual box software, I'd like to hear how others have fared with this software. Any experience, much appreciated. -- John VirtualBox overall works great for me on both i386 and amd64, much faster than qemu. Just following http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox if you fun into problems. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing
John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... Don't need sound card or anything complex... if I can get it working good enough to have access to IE 6, 7, and 8 (with 3 different virtual boxes, probably), that would be enough for me. But before I jump through the hoops of setting up a new FreeBSD box and setting up this virtual box software, I'd like to hear how others have fared with this software. Any experience, much appreciated. I've been using it for several months. Older versions were a bit fussy, but the latest seems to be really solid. The only problem I have with it is that high graphic usage will basically steal the VM away from the user (i.e. if I run a video inside a vbox machine, I can't access the mouse until the video is done running). Been running Windows WP inside a Virtual Box on FreeBSD 7. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:02:59AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... I've been using it to do some .NET programming, and it's been pretty good. No major problem, aside from the lack of CPU cycles the odd time or so. -- Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz -- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:02:59AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: Anyone have experience using Sun's Virtual Box on FreeBSD? I am looking for a way to run virtual Windows machines to do cross-browser testing... I've been using it to do some .NET programming, and it's been pretty good. No major problem, aside from the lack of CPU cycles the odd time or so. That sounds encouraging enough to give it a try. Thanks. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
