Mac + VMware Fusion + Win XP + IE6

August 07, 2008 @ 07:09 PM | posted by carmelyne

(last updated: 08.14.08)

IE6 testing stack on Mac


IE Breakdown

Initially, I used to install a whole stack on Mac VMWare Fusion to run the rails app via folder share. This was the whole list:

  • VMWare Fusion
  • Win XP
  • IE 6 or MultipleIE
  • Ruby 1-8-6-26
  • MySQL 5-0-5
  • RubyGems 1-2-0
  • SQLYog 7-0-2
  • JAVA SDK 1_4_2_18-windows-i586-p
  • required gems

With suggestions from my R Team, I've gotten it down to this list:

  • VMWare Fusion
  • Win XP
  • IE 6 or MultipleIE

Just go to the Terminal, type ifconfig. Grab the IP. The swing back to Win XP running on VMWare Fusion. Type the IP on your IE browser for example http://123.123.12.1:3000. Just append your port to the ip and there you have it! You can go ahead and proceed with testing IE while on your Mac.

[ Last updated: August 14, 2008 @ 08:32 PM ]

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