VMWare for testing multiple platforms (WAS RE: [thelist] Has anyone worked with dual IE versions?)

William Anderson neuro at well.com
Thu Jan 18 06:09:31 CST 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Strasser" <colin at u2i.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 4:25 PM
Subject: Tip: VMWare for testing multiple platforms (WAS RE: [thelist] Has
anyone worked with dual IE versions?)


> OK, Mr. Aylard mentions VMWare in passing, but it really deserves special
> attention.
>
> [snippage]

don't forget that ideally, you should have a large amount of RAM (preferably
> 128MB RAM).

VMware allows you to use any Intel OS on top of Windows NT 4.0 Workstation,
Windows 2000 Professional or Linux.  So in theory, your WinNT/2K/Linux box
could be running OpenBSD, SuSE Linux, RedHat Linux, Debian Linux, Windows
95, Windows 3.11, BeOS and Solaris - all under VMware.  Which would allow
you to test a huge variety of browsers.  Cool, eh?

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