Has anyone here tried using the InternetExplorerDriverServer (IE11) on a new nano server?

Clint Pedersen

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Dec 5, 2016, 4:07:30 PM12/5/16

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Yes, I know there is no GUI, but IE11 is included in a base install... I'm wondering if anyone has thought to try it out? If not, I may have to be the one that gives it a go...

The reason I ask is because all of our automation is done on AWS. There's a big potential time saver (boot/config time) if we can run our Selenium Grid on nano servers...

Shawn McCarthy

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Dec 5, 2016, 6:00:21 PM12/5/16

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Would this be a docker container eventually ? Would IE11 even open on a machine without a GUI ? I am curious about this as well, and figure it must somehow be possible to run IE11 or Edge in a Windows container (with a virtual frame buffer).

David

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Dec 6, 2016, 12:16:57 PM12/6/16

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This kind of sounds like a question to Microsoft no? Maybe ask question in MS-specific forums like for example:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie11-windows_7/what-are-the-iedriver-version-requirements-for/fd4752c0-2940-4982-b65b-85e2df874fbd

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/8ba70824-dba2-4425-bc75-247c2c29bde1/ie-web-development-support-moving-to-stack-overflow?forum=iewebdevelopment

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