1.7 VM tips

Michael Schaap cygwin.lists@mscha.org
Fri May 9 14:28:00 GMT 2008


On 8-May-2008 20:03, Reini Urban wrote:
> I'd need an idea how to best setup a VM for cygwin-1.7 testing.
> I thought of:
> Get a vmware license,
> use my xp home sp2 installation cd
> and do a blank windows install.
>
> Aren't there cheaper and equally easy options? 
An easy way might be to use one of the IE testing VPC images from 
<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70868>, on Virtual PC from 
<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx>.

– Michael



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