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Re: Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE

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The VMs are designed for Virtual PC, which is of course only available for Windows. There's a script called ievms that will automatically downloade those VMs and convert them for use with VirtualBox on OS X or Linux: http://xdissent.github.com/ievms/

Interesting. Is there a similar option for VMWare, or is the format too different?

Might as well just install VirtualBox, its free afterall. I stopped using VMWare when I had to buy it again for Lion.

Re: Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE

#14

The VMs are designed for Virtual PC, which is of course only available for Windows. There's a script called ievms that will automatically downloade those VMs and convert them for use with VirtualBox on OS X or Linux: http://xdissent.github.com/ievms/

You can open VHD's in VirtualBox without any conversion.

Re: Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE

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post #12

The biggest problem with these is that they all have an expiration date - and Microsoft frequently forgets to update them. And getting through to Microsoft to tell them it is out of date... forget about it.

Still better than having to buy a copy of Windows.

Re: Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE

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post #10

The VMs are designed for Virtual PC, which is of course only available for Windows. There's a script called ievms that will automatically downloade those VMs and convert them for use with VirtualBox on OS X or Linux: http://xdissent.github.com/ievms/

ievms is not even necessary. This article explains how to do it with VirtualBox, http://samvermette.com/256

ievms was written for convenience, not out of necessity.

Re: Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE

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The VMs are designed for Virtual PC, which is of course only available for Windows. There's a script called ievms that will automatically downloade those VMs and convert them for use with VirtualBox on OS X or Linux: http://xdissent.github.com/ievms/

Virtual PC isn't supported in Windows 8 and I couldn't get these images working in Hyper-V. They are truly almost an afterthought from Microsoft.

Re: Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE

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