"Rion D'Luz" <[email protected]> writes: > On Wednesday 08 April 2009, you wrote: >> Microsoft offers gratis "IE Application Compatibility" images in Virtual >> PC format: >> http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/running-microsofts-ie-application-compatibility-images-virtualbox >> >> VirtualBox (2.1.x) knows how to convert them; they run for me without >> all that qemu-img convert crap (VBoxManage can do the conversion >> directly), and without any of the mentioned BSOD crap, either, >> thankfully. > Cool - are you speaking from experience of using this?
Yup.
I don't have any processor VT extensions in play.
> Did you have to write|mod any scripts or wrappers? How big is the image?
Nope.
The from-micros~1 IE7-XPSP3.exe is 512M; this expands to a 1.8G
VirtualPC .vhd file, which … oh, I correct myself from last night …
which VirtualBox-2 can use directly (it doesn't even need to be
converted).
> JMan, why do you know so much about windows? I got a crappy XP station smb'd
> to a linux PDC collecting dust and that's where my windows awareness ends.
I've been doing a bunch of front-end web dev/javascript fancy-pants
stuff, and need to test under IE{7,8}, Safari3 and Firefox 3.0.x/win.
> Is MS/W7 the alt to vista? Nt? W2000? (does it contain drm?)
Windows7 is their desktop/laptop/PC OS iteration … an improvement over
Vista, I'm led to believe, but don't really know. Just doing an open
beta program was a huge leap for Microsoft, I'm sure.
I'm sure it contains DRM.
> virtualbox-2.1 - Sun xVM VirtualBox
> looks like i'm in good shape; can you burn me a copy(s) on a USBstick? Do you
> know of any reason
> why it wouldnt boot from it? I know you like beer so i'm prepared to recip in
> factors of 6:)
I don't have any USB sticks, but I'm sure we could find a way. But
everything mentioned above is freely available for download, with the
exception of Win7, which is licensed. Though now that IE8 is out … yup
… it looks like
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en
has been updated with an IE8-XPSP3 image for download.
> But thinking about it raises another ?
> Mem==Correct one could only use 1 IE version/host. Is that still the case, or
> can i have
> IE[6-8] installed on the same image?
I'm of the "IE6 can rot in hell" camp¹, but, no, yeah, I have one IE per
guest; I know there are solutions to get them co-installed, but creating
a separate guest had other benefits, too.
¹ IE7 came out – as did Firefox 2 – in Oct 2006; It's Apr 2009. We
don't support Firefox-1.5, we shouldn't support IE6. At least, that's
my argument. :)
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