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Just curious, why are you using XP in a vm instead of just using Linux?

• eli 13y ago
  How else do you test on IE?
  • Touche 13y ago
    Ah, ok. I use browserstack, but I see your point.
    • eli 13y ago
      Microsoft actually offers VMs for testing various incarnations of IE. They can be kind of a hassle (I think the Win 8 based ones are timebombed and you have to periodically download a new VM), but they work and are free & legal. http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
  • fournm 13y ago
    http://modern.ie/ http://modern.ie/ ? Microsoft's got VMs for almost every IE/OS combination you could want. Edit: meaning, why are you limiting yourself to just XP. I realize that was unclear.
    • Dragonai 13y ago
      Now this is cool. Thank you for sharing the link.
      • leobelle 13y ago
        I have found it to be pretty slow and painful.
    • eli 13y ago
      Huh? I am using VMs from modern.ie (among others). You need XP to run IE8. The IE8 VM is XP.
  • ams6110 13y ago
    You can't test current IE (beyond IE 9?) on XP.
    • eli 13y ago
      Right, and you can't test IE older than 9 on XP... so you need at least two VMs depending on your requirements. I still see a fair bit of traffic on IE8.