On 07/30/2009 11:29 AM, Paul McNett wrote: > Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: >> You might consider running Vista in a Sun's Virtualbox or a >> VMware virtual box hosted in Ubuntu. Then have your client >> use the Ubuntu tools like Firefox and Thunderbird for all >> web surfing and limit Vista to only those applications not >> supported under Ubuntu. > > I too thought about suggesting this. You could make different snapshots > to facilitate testing: > > + Fresh Vista Install > + After SP1 > ...etc. > > And since it is for testing only, revert back to a known snapshot when > you are done just in case. > > I'm going to have to test my app against Vista, too. I have several > users using it on Vista already with no reported problems, but at some > point I'm going to want to see what it looks like. At that point I'll > just purchase Vista and install it on my MacBook as a VMWare or > Parallels virtual machine, alongside Windows XP and Ubuntu. > > Paul
Here's more: http://sceners.org/?itemid=165 http://windowsitpro.com/Windows/article/articleid/102482/review-sun-virtualbox-30.html Regards, LelandJ > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
