IE on GNU/Linux

WIne? Bochs? Anyone managed this?

[j4mes]

Hi,

I *need* to test sites in IEx. It sucks but that's how it is :-(

I really don't enjoy using Windows, not least because it means rebooting my machine which takes time. I'd much rather run/emulate/whatever IEx, but Cedega couldn't manage it and setting up Bochs takes a *long* time (install Windows, set up, take image, etc.)

Does anyone here have experience getting IE to run on Linux and if so how? (and if not, what failed so I don't waste time trying it).

Thanks.

[encyclo]

You can do this in Wine with a bit of work, but CrossOver Office is much easier and runs IE almost spookily well.

Another option (which I am looking at currently) is to run VMWare and have multiple Windows installations emulated - you're surer of the handling as you are running the whole OS within the VMWare window.

[j4mes]

Hey, I managed it with Wine and WineTools (a nice little GPL interface to installing stuff to Wine).

Cheers for all your input :-)

[MattyMoose]

I just thought I'd add that along with wine,bochs and vmware, there is also QEMU: [fabrice.bellard.free.fr...] which works quite well. I've gotten XP installed and running with little problems, even in FreeBSD as "host", and now with the kernel-land accelerator, it works quite nicely.

Just something to check out.