Re: Virtualization preferences

["Cole Tuininga" <user=105@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 16:01 +0000, John Chambers wrote: 
> And IE due to its OS ti-ins, it's  nearly 
> impossible  to  get  two different versions of IE running on a single 
> instance of Windows.  The traditional solution has been  to  buy  and 
> support  a flock of machines, each with one version of the OS and one 
> version of IE.  Virtualization lets you collapse these down  to  many 
> fewer machines. And since you are usually doing the tests one browser 
> at a time, having them  all  using  the  same  keyboard/mouse/display 
> isn't a problem. 
> 
> It's supposedly true that there are ways to make several versions of 
> IE  work  on  a  single  instance  of Windows.  But people who try it 
> generally throw up their hands in frustration and just  buy  multiple 
> machines.  Or they say the hell with those W9[58] systems.