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I had been using these to game my Dropbox account: 1. Configure the VM up the point of signing up / downloading the client. 2. Change the PC Name & spoof a new Mac Address in the VM. 3. Sign up under a referral code. 4. Rollback to the snapshot in step 1.
OK, now I've got a pretty solid IE test setup, how do I go about testing Mac browsers (eg Safari) without a Mac? AFAIK the Mac OS X license says it can't be virtualized under non-Mac hardware. It looks like the only options are to use remote testing services, buy Apple hardware or illegally use Mac on a non-Mac host.
Except these stop working after 90 days.
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Well... Fat32 FSs don't support files > 2GB But yeah, it's silly.
Somehow, I imagine they are not hosting these off FAT32 filesystems. Maybe it's IIS that isn't very good with partial HTTP requests... ;-)
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What do you mean by "forcing"? I'm running Windows XP on VirtualBox without any problems.
You can install Windows XP anywhere, but I think JunkDNA was referring specifically to the distributed VMs for testing IE, which in the past were always VHDs.
I put together some setup notes for Linux with Virtual Box (Ubuntu in my case) in a Gist, as I found some of the Microsoft setup notes were lacking:
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.
doesn't include ie6, but not many people still use it: http://www.ie6countdown.com/
Classic example of UX nightmare: So I follow the link, I see a button that says get free VMS. I click it. I then can't figure out what I'm meant to do. I stare at some weird quickstart offer. I give up. I come back to HN, and think - how come others have managed to download their images. I go back, I realise that the button just activates a dropdown/rollup (and it's already in the dropdown state, so clicking the butt…
Actually, part of the issue is that the original poster provided a deep link into the site, which maintained the user's state, viewing the download flow.
The big blue button asking you to "Select desired testing OS" was not obvious?