so after looking over this post … http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2008/06/running-ie6-ie7-and-ie8-on-your-ubuntu.html
i’ve decided to take the plunge and try it out …
no luck getting it to run with parallels, since it prompts for a windows xp sp3 cd that i don’t have …
trying to get it running under ubuntu with virtual box since vmware server isn’t free …
see also …
http://blog.mozmonkey.com/2008/vpc-ie6-ie7-ie8-on-mac-os-x/
http://www.vmware.com/download/
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
http://phorolinux.com/installing-virtualbox-ose-on-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon.html
http://bellard.org/qemu/