Cheers, worked fine,

greg — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:18:22 +0000

Cheers, worked fine, although it wouldn't run until I recompiled the virtualbox kernel.
There is plenty of info in the PDF manual though.

Just going through setting up a new VM.
I presume an nlite created XP would work in this environment. I might look into that as all I want to do is run internet explorer 5.5 - 7 to check my websites.
(Well, check them and fix all the usual weird and illogical issues IE presents)

It's not possible to run IE7

JeevesBond — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:50:00 +0000

It's not possible to run IE7 in Wine, there is IEsForLinux with a beta IE7 (that doesn't work very well and is a pain to setup).

Personally I just use VirtualBox with Windows XP loaded into it. Hopefully you have a spare Windows XP license lying around somewhere?

Also, get hold of the IE8 beta, it's got some improved -- but not as good as Firebug -- development tools. It also lets you switch the rendering modes between IE8 standards / IE8 Quirks / IE7

Looking at the VirtualBox download page, you should be able to install VirtualBox by copying and pasting the following the command line:

echo 'deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free #VirtualBox repository' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.1

That'll add Sun's VirtualBox repository to your software list, so you'll always be kept up-to-date with new versions.

Not sure if there's anything else you might need to do, let us know how you get on.