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Alternatively: http://utilu.com/IECollection/ IE 1.0 to IE 8.0 as standalone versions in a single installer.
from the github wiki: Rough VM size estimates: IE7: 13GB IE8: 8.4GB IE9: 13GB Currently, the script will leave the compressed RAR files in place, which means you're looking at something like 45 freaking GB if you don't prune them manually (in ~/.ievms/vhd/). This wasn't a big deal for me on my company workstation, but kinda sucks on my Macbook Air, so I'll be adding a cleanup option shortly. You probably don't need t…
What's weird is that there's a jump from 8.4 GB to 13 GB on Windows 7. What is on the IE9 vhd that isn't on the IE8 vhd?
Edit: Nevermind, from the official link the IE9 vm comes with additional tools.
I can't believe Microsoft is giving away free Windows licenses as long as you use the vm image for IE. Which is basically the only reason I do have an old Windows XP vm on my Mac.
This seems like a very reasonable decision on Microsoft's part: they make it easier / legal / quick to test on their platform and more people will support and develop on it.
> curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash Bad trend in the open-source community. Please don't ask your users to install stuff this way. Not that you can't be trusted, it leads to people dropping their guard.
Projects like this are obviously targeted towards developers as they're hosted on github. If you really want to check out what the script is doing, just look at the file. Or better yet, clone the repo and use it/install however you want.
> curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash Bad trend in the open-source community. Please don't ask your users to install stuff this way. Not that you can't be trusted, it leads to people dropping their guard.
I can't believe Microsoft is giving away free Windows licenses as long as you use the vm image for IE. Which is basically the only reason I do have an old Windows XP vm on my Mac.
You can't get the VMs to pass WGA so they are only good for 30 days before they have to be reset; which pretty much makes them only good for testing / qa purposes. This seems like a very reasonable decision on Microsoft's part: they make it easier / legal / quick to test on their platform and more people will support and develop on it.
> curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash Bad trend in the open-source community. Please don't ask your users to install stuff this way. Not that you can't be trusted, it leads to people dropping their guard.
Is there a way to make this work with KVM, or is this using something special from the virtualbox distrubution to convert the .vhds?
For example, qemu-img convert -O qcow2 Win7_IE8.vhd Win7_IE8.qcow2
Alternatively: http://utilu.com/IECollection/ IE 1.0 to IE 8.0 as standalone versions in a single installer.
IE 7 and 8 are not available in the installer; I'm running Win7 x64 with IE 9.0 installed. Falling back to XP Mode for now.