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Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

#11

Post by Tmmrn » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:09 PM UTC

  LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx
  LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar
  LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar
  LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar
  LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar

Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

#12

Post by jsingleton » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:09 PM UTC

ytjohn wrote: post #2

I've actually been using the Windows 7 / IE9 version of this for a while. There is a nice simple install w/snapshot that I utilized on both my Ubuntu machine and my Mac. It takes a snapshot before powering the machine so once your 90 days is up, you can just roll the snapshot back. https://github.com/xdissent/ievms Edit: I mainly use IE to interact with work's IE-only CRM/ticket system.

Dynamics CRM? If so don't install IE10 as they don't play nice.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

#13

Post by JunkDNA » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:10 PM UTC

Tmmrn wrote: post #11

LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

This was annoying. Thankfully you run the .sfx file and it stitches all the rars into a single vm. I too would love to know the reasoning.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by crazygringo » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:12 PM UTC

This is great -- it's about time they made these available for VirtualBox etc too, and on a proper, user-friendly page. (Previously they were just for VirtualPC, and required a bit of tricky configuration to get working in VirtualBox at least.)

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:12 PM UTC

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Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

#16

Post by blahpro » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:13 PM UTC

Tmmrn wrote: post #11

LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

Although they come from Microsoft, I don't feel enormously comfortable doing this:

    chmod +x LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx; ./LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

#17

Post by tlrobinson » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:13 PM UTC

Tmmrn wrote: post #11

LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

And why bother splitting up large files when most clients can resume partial HTTP requests?

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by rednukleus » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:14 PM UTC

JunkDNA wrote: post #8

sljd wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by "forcing"? I'm running Windows XP on VirtualBox without any problems.

If you wanted to legally run multiple versions of IE without having to have multiple Windows licenses for every combination (e.g. IE8/XP, IE8/Win7, IE10 Win7, IE10 Win8, etc...) you had to use the MS-provided virtual machines. However, these were only ever made available as VirtualPC images. So there was no way to run them, even on Windows, without all sorts of machinations (some of which may have violated the ToS).

I was always impressed that Microsoft let you use Windows in a virtual machine on another platform at all (not all their competitors do). But then I realised that it made business sense for them.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by tlrobinson » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:14 PM UTC

blahpro wrote: post #16

Tmmrn wrote: post #11

LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

Although they come from Microsoft, I don't feel enormously comfortable doing this: chmod +x LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx; ./LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx

Especially because they're not downloaded over HTTPS...

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

#20

Post by ytjohn » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 8:17 PM UTC

jsingleton wrote: post #12

ytjohn wrote: post #2

I've actually been using the Windows 7 / IE9 version of this for a while. There is a nice simple install w/snapshot that I utilized on both my Ubuntu machine and my Mac. It takes a snapshot before powering the machine so once your 90 days is up, you can just roll the snapshot back. https://github.com/xdissent/ievms Edit: I mainly use IE to interact with work's IE-only CRM/ticket system.

Dynamics CRM? If so don't install IE10 as they don't play nice.

BMC Service Desk. I also worked for a company that used Siebel. With Siebel, I could actually get that to work with IE6 under Wine, but it would peg one of the CPU cores at 100%.