Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows. It’s not instantly clear if you need to source your own Windows licenses or if the license comes as part of the hourly VM charge. If it’s the latter, I can see this being fantastically useful for both automated and manual cross-browser testing—throw up a Windows VM for just as long as you need to run your tests, running them through rdesktop.
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As for testing Webdesigns, the problem with rdesktop is that it doesn't always display all colors correctly and doesn't support DirectX, so that in IE, for example, transparent PNG's will render with a gray background.
It would be great to see the cost of a Virtualization Software+Windows Licence vs. EC2+Windows Licence, especially when the latter will cost more.
Arthur - 1st October 2008 15:37 - #