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Testing in IE6 from OSX: VirtualBox settings or a good alternative

I need to test web applications in IE6.7 from my OSX workstation. I develop and run test servers locally on my OSX system. VirtualBox is currently running Windows XP.

Question: How do I view pages in IE (guest os) hosted with OSX (host os)?

From Firefox on the host (OSX), the page can be viewed on localhost: 8084 or localhost: 8000 and the IP address of the workstation is 192.168.1.100:8084 or: 8000 (depending on whether I am developing with Tomcat / JSP or Django).

VBox network parameters: NAT, bridge, internal, host only. I am currently using Bridged.

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Bridged mode allows the guest OS to use the IP address on the same network as your host. Because of this, you must have access to the page the same way - through the IP address of your workstation. The only reason I could see that this is not working would be if your host port is accessible only through localhost, if the web server serves localhost only.

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In the tutorial, I used to help me get a folder from my host OS shared by the guest OS. I noticed that the guest OS refers to the host OS as vboxsvr, e.g. \\ vboxsvr \ sharename.

If you try to access your site with a guest OS via http: // vboxsvr: 8084 or http: // vboxsvr: 80000, it may lead your site to assume that vboxsvr is a universal way to refer to the host host system.

You may also need to make sure that you have guest add-ons installed.

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I use the tool from the site: http://spoon.net/browsers/

I don't know if this works on OSX, but it works fine on windows. I can view any of my developments on a web page in any browser, including IE 6,7,8 firefox, safari, opera, etc. Check this. I use it almost every day for my company. Let me know if it works on OSX.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1302905/

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