[nailer]

Biggest announcement for me and most people I know is:

'VMs for Mac and Linux coming soon.*'

On this page: http://www.modern.ie/virtualization-tools

Ie, no more screwing around with IEVMS and conversion scripts etc when trying to get a working copy of IE.

Alas latency makes Browserstack unusable for a lot of people.

[dave1010uk]

If you don't already, try this IE VM automated installation script: https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

[nailer]

> > Ie, no more screwing around with IEVMS

> If you don't already, try this IE VM automated installation script: https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

I clearly do already.

[ph0rque]

I've deleted it because 50 gigs for testing IE7 - 9 is a bit too much for my 120 gig SSD drive.

[Groxx]

In case you didn't know, it keeps the original download around after install (and maybe other files - it has been a while since I used it). Deleting those will free up quite a bit of room.

[ph0rque]

This was after I deleted the downloaded files, if I recall correctly.

[taf2]

when it works, it works great. I always get the checksum failure messages, or errors in unrar returning a non 0 status code... eventually after multiple attempts of rm -rf ~/.ievms

and re-running the script will "sometimes" eventually work... it is the best option i know of for sure, but still not as easy as at least never been easy for me here...

[xdissent]

https://github.com/xdissent/ievms/issues/new ;-)

[btipling]

Not much help for people running their dev environment in a VM since running two VMs at the same time is quite horrible/impossible even on recent powerful macs.

[stephenr]

Put the vms on an SSD and max out your ram. I can run at least two windows vms on a late 2011 i7 MBP with SSD + an express card SSD for vms, and 16 gb of ram

[Groxx]

So for a couple hundred dollars, you can run 2 vms at once, or sign up for BrowserStack for a year or two and run waaaay more. Neat setup, but you're not selling it too well.

[stephenr]

The cheapest option they offer is $200 a year, my option has no ongoing cost, works offline or with a limited connection, works for locally hosted sites, works for resources I access through a VPN or tunnel, etc.

[Groxx]

fwiw, local and VPN/tunneled work - they can set up a tunnel to your machine, at which point the data is entirely in your control (there's a "local testing" category in the support area). And I entirely agree with your earlier points, and there are probably other benefits to having that kind of SSD setup.

But did your setup cost $200? And that includes hardware and software. If you had waited a year, would you have saved $200? (depending on when you bought your SSDs, those alone could be a 'yes').

[nwh]

I'm perfectly happy running 3+ concurrent Windows VMs on my 2011 MacBokk. The main limitation is RAM, which you can max out for under $100USD.

[Dylan16807]

Why would that be? An idle VM doesn't take much CPU, and there should be plenty of memory for machines that only have to fit a browser.