| John Karr on 27 Apr 2012 20:04:16 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] There's gotta be a better way |
The only reliable way to run Windows software on Linux is to use virtualization. VMWare player for Linux is available without charge and is much more solid that virtualbox. Qemu-kvm hasn't crashed on me for several months now, and since it is both gpl and favored by the Linux kernel developers over the other two options, I can now actually recommend it. -----Original Message----- From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Martin Dellwo Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 10:52 PM To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List Subject: Re: [PLUG] There's gotta be a better way Found this after google search of 'ie9 on linux': http://primozverdnik.com/2011/06/run-ie9-in-virtualbox-for-free/ http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/test-websites-in-internet-explorer-9-8.html So, per your last option below, you shouldn't need to pay for a license! Marty On Apr 27, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Floyd Johnson wrote: > I just blew three hours repairing and retesting a half-dozen webpages in IE 9, and to do it, I had to switch to Win7 and use WordPad for editing. > > Finding the needed menus during editing was a pain due to some goofy HIG redesign that made the menu bar less obvious. I also made more mistakes, as WordPad isn't really a programmer's editor. Also raising my hackles was that I could only have one of the many files open at a time. At risk of pulling another "grass versus Astroturf" bit, even the humble gEdit, which came in the original LiveCD-borne installation, answered both those issues, so, had I been able to see what IE9 saw of my site in Fedora 16, I'd likely have knocked out the task in at most 90 minutes. > > What, given the following, is the best way to get IE8-9 running inside a Linux environment? > -IE8 under Wine crashes on launch. > -For some reason, I can't get the mid-April-made timelocked IE8 VHD to work in either VirtualBoxOSE or the regular VirtualBox 4.1.4. The virtual machine gives a brief BSOD during boot, then reboots with the option of launching Startup Repair. > > Is it possible that, for reliable IE8 to 9 render/JS testing, I need to suck it up and shell out for a Win7 install disk, then install it in a nice, safe VirtualBox VM? > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Martin Dellwo cell: (484) 437-3662 martin.dellwo@gmail.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug